Anglo-American Literature and MannersC. Scribner, 1852 - 312 pages |
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... Imagination ? -The United States want Histor- ical Perspective , not Greatness ,. SEC . III . — Benjamin Franklin - Sir John Crevecœur - Letters of an American Planter - Jonathan Edwards , · SEC . IV . - Gouverneur Morris - The American ...
... Imagination ? -The United States want Histor- ical Perspective , not Greatness ,. SEC . III . — Benjamin Franklin - Sir John Crevecœur - Letters of an American Planter - Jonathan Edwards , · SEC . IV . - Gouverneur Morris - The American ...
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... Imagination , magnificent and dangerous gift , is not found in the works of Franklin , nor do any of his ... imagination has rested mute . Problem of curious resolution . SECTION II . WHAT IS IMAGINATION ? -THE UNITED STATES WANT HIS ...
... Imagination , magnificent and dangerous gift , is not found in the works of Franklin , nor do any of his ... imagination has rested mute . Problem of curious resolution . SECTION II . WHAT IS IMAGINATION ? -THE UNITED STATES WANT HIS ...
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... imagination ; but in your books , pictures , songs , poems , statues , what you fancy that you invent - though you were Dante , Phidias , or Raphael - will always be an impression of your childhood or youth , something which you have ...
... imagination ; but in your books , pictures , songs , poems , statues , what you fancy that you invent - though you were Dante , Phidias , or Raphael - will always be an impression of your childhood or youth , something which you have ...
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... imagination of men of genius , produces the passions and scenes of the world , as a faithful and polished mirror repro- duces a beautiful country or a regular visage ; false imagina- tion is like those twisted mirrors , which the ...
... imagination of men of genius , produces the passions and scenes of the world , as a faithful and polished mirror repro- duces a beautiful country or a regular visage ; false imagina- tion is like those twisted mirrors , which the ...
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... imagination . The American Cultivator only , by the freshness of his pic- tures , exhibits a sort of originality . Franklin is like Fenelon , Bunyan , Addison . In Jonathan Edwards there is something of the firm , neat , pressing argu ...
... imagination . The American Cultivator only , by the freshness of his pic- tures , exhibits a sort of originality . Franklin is like Fenelon , Bunyan , Addison . In Jonathan Edwards there is something of the firm , neat , pressing argu ...
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