Anglo-American Literature and MannersC. Scribner, 1852 - 312 pages |
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... Tradition and Custoin - Fe- derative Harmony - Dangers -- Whigs and Democrats -Federals and Anti - Federals , • SEC . VI . - Mechanism and Strategics of Parties , 269 274 • · 282 SEO . VII . - The Lowell Factory Girls - Boston - The ...
... Tradition and Custoin - Fe- derative Harmony - Dangers -- Whigs and Democrats -Federals and Anti - Federals , • SEC . VI . - Mechanism and Strategics of Parties , 269 274 • · 282 SEO . VII . - The Lowell Factory Girls - Boston - The ...
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... transitions from feeble- ness to virility ; any of those epochs , the chain of which , ornamented by tradition , receives later , the consecration of poetry . Here are soldiers , legislators , artisans , a strong LITERATURE AND ELOQUENCE .
... transitions from feeble- ness to virility ; any of those epochs , the chain of which , ornamented by tradition , receives later , the consecration of poetry . Here are soldiers , legislators , artisans , a strong LITERATURE AND ELOQUENCE .
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... tradition . As soon as the first symptoms of agitation manifest themselves , he sees clearly the future of France . " The court , " he says , " is * Said of a person who expresses himself with great readiness . extremely feeble ; morals ...
... tradition . As soon as the first symptoms of agitation manifest themselves , he sees clearly the future of France . " The court , " he says , " is * Said of a person who expresses himself with great readiness . extremely feeble ; morals ...
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... traditions , and always opposed to the scabrous experience of empirical politics , will unquestionably follow , the gentlest and least violent way ; the surest , not the noisiest ; not the most democratic , the most flattering to vulgar ...
... traditions , and always opposed to the scabrous experience of empirical politics , will unquestionably follow , the gentlest and least violent way ; the surest , not the noisiest ; not the most democratic , the most flattering to vulgar ...
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... tradition is preserved in England , thanks to which the Anglo - Saxon race has overspread the world . To- day they have a girdle round the earth , commencing at Bank's Peninsula , passing Australia , Hindostan , Cape of Good Hope , St ...
... tradition is preserved in England , thanks to which the Anglo - Saxon race has overspread the world . To- day they have a girdle round the earth , commencing at Bank's Peninsula , passing Australia , Hindostan , Cape of Good Hope , St ...
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