Anglo-American Literature and MannersC. Scribner, 1852 - 312 pages |
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... industry . It is as we have just said a country without imagination because without memo- ries . Countries grown old in sorrow , Ireland , Scotland , for instance , lend much to the imagination . They have bought that brilliant faculty ...
... industry . It is as we have just said a country without imagination because without memo- ries . Countries grown old in sorrow , Ireland , Scotland , for instance , lend much to the imagination . They have bought that brilliant faculty ...
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... industry ; a nation whose Future is their country ; who have no Past - hardly born and already a giant — which had no infancy , no child- hood , and whose maturity precedes its youth - not recog- nizing in their history any of those ...
... industry ; a nation whose Future is their country ; who have no Past - hardly born and already a giant — which had no infancy , no child- hood , and whose maturity precedes its youth - not recog- nizing in their history any of those ...
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... industry and labor are in his pages ; his heart beats in unison with every heart ; how he compels us to associate ourselves with the perils of the whale - fishery ; to take interest in the joyous feasts which reward those perils ! How ...
... industry and labor are in his pages ; his heart beats in unison with every heart ; how he compels us to associate ourselves with the perils of the whale - fishery ; to take interest in the joyous feasts which reward those perils ! How ...
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... industry , giving but little latitude to the personal wishes of the Sovereign , en- suring extended supervision to the deliberative chambers , and leaving to talent ready access to power . An ultra 28 ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF.
... industry , giving but little latitude to the personal wishes of the Sovereign , en- suring extended supervision to the deliberative chambers , and leaving to talent ready access to power . An ultra 28 ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF.
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... industry , and its rudest triumphs . No American writer before Cooper , had carried repro- duction embellished by ... industries , of our arts , of our ideas , transplanted to a new soil , forced to grapple with savage life , and to ...
... industry , and its rudest triumphs . No American writer before Cooper , had carried repro- duction embellished by ... industries , of our arts , of our ideas , transplanted to a new soil , forced to grapple with savage life , and to ...
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