Anglo-American Literature and MannersC. Scribner, 1852 - 312 pages |
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... admirable in all latitudes are those two things , Strength and Joy ! And is it not a rare and remarkable talent to paint them so as to make the reader share in them ? This writer , so little read , attains in some parts of his work to a ...
... admirable in all latitudes are those two things , Strength and Joy ! And is it not a rare and remarkable talent to paint them so as to make the reader share in them ? This writer , so little read , attains in some parts of his work to a ...
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... admirable observer ; never has the French Revolution been judged by so impartial a witness , by a man come from the other world to assist at this great drama , by an American , a member of the Congress where Washington and Franklin sate ...
... admirable observer ; never has the French Revolution been judged by so impartial a witness , by a man come from the other world to assist at this great drama , by an American , a member of the Congress where Washington and Franklin sate ...
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... admiration , or his own ; that his opinions are neither exaggerated nor wanting , but singularly redoubt- able . He shows no favor to pretension . Does a vanity hide itself under a virtue ; does a feebleness put on the robe of glory ...
... admiration , or his own ; that his opinions are neither exaggerated nor wanting , but singularly redoubt- able . He shows no favor to pretension . Does a vanity hide itself under a virtue ; does a feebleness put on the robe of glory ...
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... admiration of you , as from pity for him . " NECKER DE STAEL . " 99 Happily the arms of Bonaparte aided the eloquence of Cop- pet , the diplomacy of Morris , and the letters of Washington . M. de Lafayette was freed , and one of the 34 ...
... admiration of you , as from pity for him . " NECKER DE STAEL . " 99 Happily the arms of Bonaparte aided the eloquence of Cop- pet , the diplomacy of Morris , and the letters of Washington . M. de Lafayette was freed , and one of the 34 ...
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... admirably adapted to this sort of education . A few minutes walk brought the city youth out into green fields ; under fresh shadows , to the brink of fair streams which , covered in the winter with thick ice , invited the skaters to ...
... admirably adapted to this sort of education . A few minutes walk brought the city youth out into green fields ; under fresh shadows , to the brink of fair streams which , covered in the winter with thick ice , invited the skaters to ...
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