American Literature: An Anthology and Critical Survey, Volume 2Joe Lee Davis, John Towner Frederick, Frank Luther Mott C. Scribner's Sons, 1948 - 1120 pages |
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Page 276
... less loosely clad , and wore upon their heads tall felt cones that were suggestive of the days of the Commonwealth . I was a cipher in this august company , and felt subdued , not to say torpid . I was not even of sufficient consequence ...
... less loosely clad , and wore upon their heads tall felt cones that were suggestive of the days of the Commonwealth . I was a cipher in this august company , and felt subdued , not to say torpid . I was not even of sufficient consequence ...
Page 358
... less they wasted on thought ; men who sprang from the soil to power ; apt to be distrustful of them- selves and of others ; shy ; jealous ; some- times vindictive ; more or less dull in out- ward appearance ; always needing stimu- lants ...
... less they wasted on thought ; men who sprang from the soil to power ; apt to be distrustful of them- selves and of others ; shy ; jealous ; some- times vindictive ; more or less dull in out- ward appearance ; always needing stimu- lants ...
Page 613
... less with the meditation in which true religion always culminates , than in the mediation or ob- servance of the law of measure that should govern man in his secular relations . More- over , I am for coming at my humanism in a positive ...
... less with the meditation in which true religion always culminates , than in the mediation or ob- servance of the law of measure that should govern man in his secular relations . More- over , I am for coming at my humanism in a positive ...
Contents
AMERICAN LITERATURE 18601900 | 1 |
ABRAHAM LINCOLN | 15 |
Whispers of Heavenly Death | 102 |
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