Anglo-American Literature and MannersC. Scribner, 1852 - 312 pages |
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... 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 writer , so little read , attains in some parts of his work to a degree of dramatic interest very ...
... 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 writer , so little read , attains in some parts of his work to a degree of dramatic interest very ...
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... things . Morris having never been obliged to fight against fortune , nourished more epicurean tastes , and resigned himself more easily to the brilliant and conversational idleness of great cities . He had also some good old habitual ...
... things . Morris having never been obliged to fight against fortune , nourished more epicurean tastes , and resigned himself more easily to the brilliant and conversational idleness of great cities . He had also some good old habitual ...
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... things , and earnestly secks in the wild chaos , the germs of veritable independence , of real liberty , recognizes with sorrow , 14 ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF Morris at Paris from 1789 to 1792-Preludes to the Revo- lution-Jefferson's ...
... things , and earnestly secks in the wild chaos , the germs of veritable independence , of real liberty , recognizes with sorrow , 14 ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF Morris at Paris from 1789 to 1792-Preludes to the Revo- lution-Jefferson's ...
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... things , and that dogmatic assertions are of very little importance to the happiness of the masses . " I gave him my opinions , and suggested several amendments tending to soften the high- colored expression of freedom . It is not by ...
... things , and that dogmatic assertions are of very little importance to the happiness of the masses . " I gave him my opinions , and suggested several amendments tending to soften the high- colored expression of freedom . It is not by ...
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... thing being done to purpose by the States General . This comes from having sanguine expectation of a downright republican form of government . The literary people here , observing the abuses of their monarchical form , imagine that ...
... thing being done to purpose by the States General . This comes from having sanguine expectation of a downright republican form of government . The literary people here , observing the abuses of their monarchical form , imagine that ...
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