Anglo-American Literature and MannersC. Scribner, 1852 - 312 pages |
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... means simply " Protestantism , " of which the only form known in France is a modified Calvinism . It is trusted that readers will remember that the whole United States is spoken of , and that what may not be true of their own immediate ...
... means simply " Protestantism , " of which the only form known in France is a modified Calvinism . It is trusted that readers will remember that the whole United States is spoken of , and that what may not be true of their own immediate ...
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... mean or gross ideas , such as belong to hunger , thirst , the material wants of man . But they led lives of agitation ; a thousand varied impressions were profoundly engraved upon their minds which were endowed by Nature with a great ...
... mean or gross ideas , such as belong to hunger , thirst , the material wants of man . But they led lives of agitation ; a thousand varied impressions were profoundly engraved upon their minds which were endowed by Nature with a great ...
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... means to escape from his own glory , and the ordinary recompenses LITERATURE AND ELOQUENCE . 11 -Gouverneur Morris-The American Aristocrat-Paris observed from 1789 to 1792, by a Founder of American Confederation, PAGE.
... means to escape from his own glory , and the ordinary recompenses LITERATURE AND ELOQUENCE . 11 -Gouverneur Morris-The American Aristocrat-Paris observed from 1789 to 1792, by a Founder of American Confederation, PAGE.
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... means amusing ; it is a Chinese screen , without perspective , where all is on the same flat , all the incidents have the same importance . Yet I like this style without style , this good faith of an honest business man better than the ...
... means amusing ; it is a Chinese screen , without perspective , where all is on the same flat , all the incidents have the same importance . Yet I like this style without style , this good faith of an honest business man better than the ...
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... means of self - enrichment . The source of his great renown in France would be thought singular in America ; it is the emphasis of his writings , the philosophic and false sensibility which makes the fortune of modern romances , and ...
... means of self - enrichment . The source of his great renown in France would be thought singular in America ; it is the emphasis of his writings , the philosophic and false sensibility which makes the fortune of modern romances , and ...
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