Anglo-American Literature and MannersC. Scribner, 1852 - 312 pages |
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... true of their own immediate society , may be very true of some other portion of this vast com- munity - indeed , what is there not in this huge country ? It is hoped that few errors will be found in.
... true of their own immediate society , may be very true of some other portion of this vast com- munity - indeed , what is there not in this huge country ? It is hoped that few errors will be found in.
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... true originality was neither chivalric grace nor intellectual bril- liancy . The colonists had only that Calvinist energy , that vigorous courage , about to struggle with nature , that force which the author of Robinson Crusoe , the old ...
... true originality was neither chivalric grace nor intellectual bril- liancy . The colonists had only that Calvinist energy , that vigorous courage , about to struggle with nature , that force which the author of Robinson Crusoe , the old ...
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... true liberty develop itself by mere moral force . He could not forget that he had taken a very active part , played a very essential role in a revolution crowned with success , with fortune , with power . How could Morris help fearing ...
... true liberty develop itself by mere moral force . He could not forget that he had taken a very active part , played a very essential role in a revolution crowned with success , with fortune , with power . How could Morris help fearing ...
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... republic , " but a true Republic , industrious and calm . We Sometime after having written the above letter to Washing- ton , he writes to Mr. Jay : " When I reflect how very little this nation is LITERATURE AND ELOQUENCE . 19.
... republic , " but a true Republic , industrious and calm . We Sometime after having written the above letter to Washing- ton , he writes to Mr. Jay : " When I reflect how very little this nation is LITERATURE AND ELOQUENCE . 19.
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... true that I ain charged here with a mission from Congress to ask the liberty of Lafayette . I laugh at this a little , and then assuring her that there is no truth in that suggestion , say that it is a piece of folly to keep him ...
... true that I ain charged here with a mission from Congress to ask the liberty of Lafayette . I laugh at this a little , and then assuring her that there is no truth in that suggestion , say that it is a piece of folly to keep him ...
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