Anglo-American Literature and MannersC. Scribner, 1852 - 312 pages |
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... minds that can be cited , and if we were in search of a man to oppose to our Puritans , we could not find a better one . He lodged near the statue of Erasmus , and when , at night , he illumed his lamp , its sceptic light fell upon the ...
... minds that can be cited , and if we were in search of a man to oppose to our Puritans , we could not find a better one . He lodged near the statue of Erasmus , and when , at night , he illumed his lamp , its sceptic light fell upon the ...
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... mind of man there is but one which does not emanate from the memory . Unite the forms of the man and the horse , of the fish and the woman , of the goat and the youth , and you create the Cen- taur , the Syren , the Faun . Submit ...
... mind of man there is but one which does not emanate from the memory . Unite the forms of the man and the horse , of the fish and the woman , of the goat and the youth , and you create the Cen- taur , the Syren , the Faun . Submit ...
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... minds which were endowed by Nature with a great aptitude to receive such impressions . Dante had seen Florence ; he created a Hell : Theologian , he created the Paradise : Lover , he produced Beatrice . Was it wanting in him , that ...
... minds which were endowed by Nature with a great aptitude to receive such impressions . Dante had seen Florence ; he created a Hell : Theologian , he created the Paradise : Lover , he produced Beatrice . Was it wanting in him , that ...
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... mind . A little while before the American Revolution broke out , a book - now little known - appeared , the tone and stylo of which are characteristic- " The Letters of an American Cultivator . " Sir John Crevecoeur , author of this ...
... mind . A little while before the American Revolution broke out , a book - now little known - appeared , the tone and stylo of which are characteristic- " The Letters of an American Cultivator . " Sir John Crevecoeur , author of this ...
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... mind were essentially American ; a penetrating good sense , and a great taste for order and economy ; a gentle and benev- olent severity in his way of judging men ; and in matters of fortune a consummate prudence and exemplary patience ...
... mind were essentially American ; a penetrating good sense , and a great taste for order and economy ; a gentle and benev- olent severity in his way of judging men ; and in matters of fortune a consummate prudence and exemplary patience ...
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