Anglo-American Literature and MannersC. Scribner, 1852 - 312 pages |
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... interest in the joyous feasts which reward those perils ! How admirable in all latitudes are those two things , Strength and Joy ! And is it not a rare and remarkable talent to paint them so as to make the reader share in them ? This ...
... interest in the joyous feasts which reward those perils ! How admirable in all latitudes are those two things , Strength and Joy ! And is it not a rare and remarkable talent to paint them so as to make the reader share in them ? This ...
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... interests to their personal ambition . " When that great and fine Revolution of America , so little stained with innocent blood , so noble and so grave , was ter- minated , and Washington , instead of seeking the first rank in the new ...
... interests to their personal ambition . " When that great and fine Revolution of America , so little stained with innocent blood , so noble and so grave , was ter- minated , and Washington , instead of seeking the first rank in the new ...
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... interest in deceiving . How will he regard those ardent theories , those philosophic vapors , by whose constant eruptions society is melted to be recast . Does he consider this vehe- mence as a pledge of duration ; this powerful ...
... interest in deceiving . How will he regard those ardent theories , those philosophic vapors , by whose constant eruptions society is melted to be recast . Does he consider this vehe- mence as a pledge of duration ; this powerful ...
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... interests not complicated ; ideas , serious and strong -- a nation which does not care to imitate Epaminondas , or to have a Demosthenes , so long as they can make the port of Boston free ; so long as the Stamp Act does not diminish ...
... interests not complicated ; ideas , serious and strong -- a nation which does not care to imitate Epaminondas , or to have a Demosthenes , so long as they can make the port of Boston free ; so long as the Stamp Act does not diminish ...
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... interest than the frivolous one excited by a mere out- side ceremony . He expects a total change in French life . When he sees the Queen , already humiliated , abase her Aus- trian pride , devour her tears in silence , and all trembling ...
... interest than the frivolous one excited by a mere out- side ceremony . He expects a total change in French life . When he sees the Queen , already humiliated , abase her Aus- trian pride , devour her tears in silence , and all trembling ...
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