Anglo-American Literature and MannersC. Scribner, 1852 - 312 pages |
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... institutions , I refer the reader to the excellent works of M. de Tocqueville and of M. Michael Chevalier . My object is different . I propose to exhibit , in a series of faithful pictures , the details of manners , traits of character ...
... institutions , I refer the reader to the excellent works of M. de Tocqueville and of M. Michael Chevalier . My object is different . I propose to exhibit , in a series of faithful pictures , the details of manners , traits of character ...
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... institutions on enthusiasm and phrases . You must turn to the memoirs of Morris , to see how a . friend of Washington appreciates those paper politicians , who issue from the Registry and the Sorbonne to regulate king . doms . The ...
... institutions on enthusiasm and phrases . You must turn to the memoirs of Morris , to see how a . friend of Washington appreciates those paper politicians , who issue from the Registry and the Sorbonne to regulate king . doms . The ...
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... institutions ; the natural and necessary action of a people who use all their efforts for the material conquest of Nature and the creation of industry , causes all men to march in battalion and towards the same point . There is no more ...
... institutions ; the natural and necessary action of a people who use all their efforts for the material conquest of Nature and the creation of industry , causes all men to march in battalion and towards the same point . There is no more ...
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... bell of the Old . Then you saw the ancient institutions of Europe crumble , and the thrones were broken , yet the people could not build a durable habitation from the wreck ; all ideas and LITERATURE AND ELOQUENCE . 95.
... bell of the Old . Then you saw the ancient institutions of Europe crumble , and the thrones were broken , yet the people could not build a durable habitation from the wreck ; all ideas and LITERATURE AND ELOQUENCE . 95.
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... , that it is infamous to establish a hierarchy of education and instruction , that the University is a feudal institution , behind the age , opposed to progress , and which ought to be destroyed . On 102 ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF.
... , that it is infamous to establish a hierarchy of education and instruction , that the University is a feudal institution , behind the age , opposed to progress , and which ought to be destroyed . On 102 ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF.
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