Anglo-American Literature and MannersC. Scribner, 1852 - 312 pages |
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... Dangers - Whigs and Democrats -Federals and Anti - Federals , • SEC . VI . - Mechanism and Strategics of Parties , Pride of Race , SEC . VII . - The Lowell Factory Girls - Boston - The Blacks— • 269 • 274 282 287 SEC . VIII . - Activity ...
... Dangers - Whigs and Democrats -Federals and Anti - Federals , • SEC . VI . - Mechanism and Strategics of Parties , Pride of Race , SEC . VII . - The Lowell Factory Girls - Boston - The Blacks— • 269 • 274 282 287 SEC . VIII . - Activity ...
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... dangerous gift , is not found in the works of Franklin , nor do any of his cotemporaries or friends possess it . Nor Washington , nor Jefferson , nor Gouv- erneur Morris , nor John Quincy Adams . Only to - day some sparks from its prism ...
... dangerous gift , is not found in the works of Franklin , nor do any of his cotemporaries or friends possess it . Nor Washington , nor Jefferson , nor Gouv- erneur Morris , nor John Quincy Adams . Only to - day some sparks from its prism ...
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... danger ; but when there was necessity , urgency , duty , he halted , showed a calm face and braved the peril ; it is one of the finest qualities of the American character . His speeches in Congress and his notes contributed powerfully ...
... danger ; but when there was necessity , urgency , duty , he halted , showed a calm face and braved the peril ; it is one of the finest qualities of the American character . His speeches in Congress and his notes contributed powerfully ...
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... danger , attached , in the chapel and during the mass , a lighted candle to the cassock of a fashionable abbé ; what politico - romantic discussions were heard at the restaurateurs ' of Versailles ; how the expiring monarchy looked ...
... danger , attached , in the chapel and during the mass , a lighted candle to the cassock of a fashionable abbé ; what politico - romantic discussions were heard at the restaurateurs ' of Versailles ; how the expiring monarchy looked ...
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... danger which now threatens her . " This was written in 1789 . We have already remarked in Morris , a mixture of severe morality , and of skilful social finesse . He has just enough of American puritanism not to excuse the slightest vice ...
... danger which now threatens her . " This was written in 1789 . We have already remarked in Morris , a mixture of severe morality , and of skilful social finesse . He has just enough of American puritanism not to excuse the slightest vice ...
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