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 121
... tion , abstract principle , even literary style , fit for the time , put in shape by some great literatus , and projected among man- kind , may duly cause changes , growths , re- movals , greater than the longest and blood- iest war ...
... tion , abstract principle , even literary style , fit for the time , put in shape by some great literatus , and projected among man- kind , may duly cause changes , growths , re- movals , greater than the longest and blood- iest war ...
Page 353
... tion , we must build more and more prisons , more and more almshouses , more and more insane asylums . It is not from top to bottom that societies die ; it is from bottom to top . But there are evidences far more pal- pable than any ...
... tion , we must build more and more prisons , more and more almshouses , more and more insane asylums . It is not from top to bottom that societies die ; it is from bottom to top . But there are evidences far more pal- pable than any ...
Page 486
... tion , privately considered , of whether one of the two younger men would be Henry St. George . He knew many of his distin- guished contemporaries by their photo- graphs , but had never , as happened , seen a portrait of the great ...
... tion , privately considered , of whether one of the two younger men would be Henry St. George . He knew many of his distin- guished contemporaries by their photo- graphs , but had never , as happened , seen a portrait of the great ...
Contents
AMERICAN LITERATURE 18601900 | 1 |
ABRAHAM LINCOLN | 15 |
Whispers of Heavenly Death | 102 |
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