Anglo-American Literature and MannersC. Scribner, 1852 - 312 pages |
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Page 9
... writer , so little read , attains in some parts of his work to a degree of dramatic interest very uncommon . The American war is about to break out ; the low murmurs of the tempest rumble from afar ; the Indians are menacing to raise ...
... writer , so little read , attains in some parts of his work to a degree of dramatic interest very uncommon . The American war is about to break out ; the low murmurs of the tempest rumble from afar ; the Indians are menacing to raise ...
Page 10
... writer whom we encounter in the literary annals of America , is a logician whose celebrity does not seem to have been widely propagated in Europe , but whose merits cannot be denied . Jonathan Edwards , an cccle- siastic , born in ...
... writer whom we encounter in the literary annals of America , is a logician whose celebrity does not seem to have been widely propagated in Europe , but whose merits cannot be denied . Jonathan Edwards , an cccle- siastic , born in ...
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... , " 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.
... , " 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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... writing all this in his note - book uttered it in the drawing - rooms . Judge if French society were surprised ; the liberty with which the American spake such opinions , seemed strange in those days when all was hope , fire , ardor ...
... writing all this in his note - book uttered it in the drawing - rooms . Judge if French society were surprised ; the liberty with which the American spake such opinions , seemed strange in those days when all was hope , fire , ardor ...
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... ; that pleases the French . Here one likes to read , if you do not make him reflect . Ile has talent as a writer , and his wife has finesse ; but neither one nor the other know what a minister is . 24 ORIGIN AND . PROGRESS OF.
... ; that pleases the French . Here one likes to read , if you do not make him reflect . Ile has talent as a writer , and his wife has finesse ; but neither one nor the other know what a minister is . 24 ORIGIN AND . PROGRESS OF.
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