Anglo-American Literature and MannersC. Scribner, 1852 - 312 pages |
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... Political System born of Tradition and Custom - Fe- derative Harmony - Dangers - Whigs and Democrats -Federals and Anti - Federals , • SEC . VI . - Mechanism and Strategics of Parties , Pride of Race , SEC . VII . - The Lowell Factory ...
... Political System born of Tradition and Custom - Fe- derative Harmony - Dangers - Whigs and Democrats -Federals and Anti - Federals , • SEC . VI . - Mechanism and Strategics of Parties , Pride of Race , SEC . VII . - The Lowell Factory ...
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... political sagacity . One finds there , under ingenuous and ingenious forms , the suppleness of a most rare mind . A little while before the American Revolution broke out , a book - now little known - appeared , the tone and style of ...
... political sagacity . One finds there , under ingenuous and ingenious forms , the suppleness of a most rare mind . A little while before the American Revolution broke out , a book - now little known - appeared , the tone and style of ...
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... political acts of Morris , citizen of the United States , were honorable without being brilliant . The qualities of his mind were essentially American ; a penetrating good sense , and a great taste for order and economy ; a gentle and ...
... political acts of Morris , citizen of the United States , were honorable without being brilliant . The qualities of his mind were essentially American ; a penetrating good sense , and a great taste for order and economy ; a gentle and ...
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... politics , philanthrophy and philosophy ; a genius who could regulate the destinies of twenty empires better than Lycurgus or Alfred the Great . Something worth observing is this the immense surprise of the good Morris in presence of ...
... politics , philanthrophy and philosophy ; a genius who could regulate the destinies of twenty empires better than Lycurgus or Alfred the Great . Something worth observing is this the immense surprise of the good Morris in presence of ...
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... political opinions 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 ...
... political opinions 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 ...
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