Anglo-American Literature and MannersC. Scribner, 1852 - 312 pages |
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... live in the hardness of their souls . It was not until late , after the first efforts at colonization , when the red men had been forced to retire into their woods , when a considerable strip of land had been cleared upon the borders of ...
... live in the hardness of their souls . It was not until late , after the first efforts at colonization , when the red men had been forced to retire into their woods , when a considerable strip of land had been cleared upon the borders of ...
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... lives of agitation ; a thousand varied impressions were profoundly engraved upon their minds which were endowed by Nature with a great aptitude to receive such impressions . Dante had seen Florence ; he created a Hell : Theologian , he ...
... lives of agitation ; a thousand varied impressions were profoundly engraved upon their minds which were endowed by Nature with a great aptitude to receive such impressions . Dante had seen Florence ; he created a Hell : Theologian , he ...
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... live with them . " Of the same sort is his judgment of men and character ; austere as Truth , calm and simple as she is , armed with an unepigramatic irony , less bitter than satire , yet of a farther- reaching blow . Let our readers ...
... live with them . " Of the same sort is his judgment of men and character ; austere as Truth , calm and simple as she is , armed with an unepigramatic irony , less bitter than satire , yet of a farther- reaching blow . Let our readers ...
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... lives , and has the same right to follow his trade here , as any other man . And as it would be unjust to provent a French hatter , whom Bonaparto might banish , from making hats , so it would be unjust to pro- vent a French General ...
... lives , and has the same right to follow his trade here , as any other man . And as it would be unjust to provent a French hatter , whom Bonaparto might banish , from making hats , so it would be unjust to pro- vent a French General ...
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... lives in thought in St. James ' Park ; he wanders , in his reveries , through the shadowy alleys of Kensington ; he talks with Sterne ; he shakes hands with Goldsmith . He will soon don the rose- • colored buckram and jerkin of the ...
... lives in thought in St. James ' Park ; he wanders , in his reveries , through the shadowy alleys of Kensington ; he talks with Sterne ; he shakes hands with Goldsmith . He will soon don the rose- • colored buckram and jerkin of the ...
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