Anglo-American Literature and MannersC. Scribner, 1852 - 312 pages |
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... less ham . When they had crossed the Atlantic , these worthy people , who were seeking a peaccable spot where they might worship God in their own fashion , set to work to found colonies , which became Philadel- phia , New York , and ...
... less ham . When they had crossed the Atlantic , these worthy people , who were seeking a peaccable spot where they might worship God in their own fashion , set to work to found colonies , which became Philadel- phia , New York , and ...
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... less vivid or ardent power of remembrance , you will have what is vulgarly called fecundity or sterility of imagination ; but in your books , pictures , songs , poems , statues , what you fancy that you invent - though you were Dante ...
... less vivid or ardent power of remembrance , you will have what is vulgarly called fecundity or sterility of imagination ; but in your books , pictures , songs , poems , statues , what you fancy that you invent - though you were Dante ...
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... less to his own cause , and as a traitor to that independence which as an American he was bound to propagate . " At dinner I sit next to Monsieur de Lafayette , who tells mo that I injure the cause , for that my sentiments are con ...
... less to his own cause , and as a traitor to that independence which as an American he was bound to propagate . " At dinner I sit next to Monsieur de Lafayette , who tells mo that I injure the cause , for that my sentiments are con ...
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... less the cause than the instrument of their sufferings . The nation loves in him the man detested by the court . If the nobles did not try to destroy him , the republicans would not sustain him ; his position is factitious ; he is not ...
... less the cause than the instrument of their sufferings . The nation loves in him the man detested by the court . If the nobles did not try to destroy him , the republicans would not sustain him ; his position is factitious ; he is not ...
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... less heroic , but rather more in- teresting for us . The feebleness of Louis XVI . , his entire want of decision and of intellectual courage in great circumstances , inspired in Morris a sort of disdain ; he is not for a moment deceived ...
... less heroic , but rather more in- teresting for us . The feebleness of Louis XVI . , his entire want of decision and of intellectual courage in great circumstances , inspired in Morris a sort of disdain ; he is not for a moment deceived ...
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