Anglo-American Literature and MannersC. Scribner, 1852 - 312 pages |
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... never exposed himself rashly ; never went to meet 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 ...
... never exposed himself rashly ; never went to meet 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 ...
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... never been obliged to fight against fortune , nourished more epicurean tastes , and resigned himself more easily to the brilliant and conversational idleness of great cities . He had also some good old habitual sins , gastronomy , for ...
... never been obliged to fight against fortune , nourished more epicurean tastes , and resigned himself more easily to the brilliant and conversational idleness of great cities . He had also some good old habitual sins , gastronomy , for ...
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... 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 . Democrat by fact ...
... 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 . Democrat by fact ...
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... never agree with those of his friend M. de Lafayette . The first time that this celebrated name appears in his journal , he says- " Lafayette is too full of politics ; he appears to be too republican for the genius of his country . " It ...
... never agree with those of his friend M. de Lafayette . The first time that this celebrated name appears in his journal , he says- " Lafayette is too full of politics ; he appears to be too republican for the genius of his country . " It ...
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... never hid his pity for an aristocracy which had flourished so long and which was so suddenly uprooted . Therefore all doors were opened to him , those of the boiling revolutionary clubs , those of the hotels where the trembling relics ...
... never hid his pity for an aristocracy which had flourished so long and which was so suddenly uprooted . Therefore all doors were opened to him , those of the boiling revolutionary clubs , those of the hotels where the trembling relics ...
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