American Quarterly Review, Volume 17Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1835 - American literature |
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... existence originated in a bold dis- regard of probabilities and precedents , and whose government is even yet one of experiment . Speculation is a grand element of the American character . In physics it has done so much for us , that we ...
... existence originated in a bold dis- regard of probabilities and precedents , and whose government is even yet one of experiment . Speculation is a grand element of the American character . In physics it has done so much for us , that we ...
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... existence by a frail and fee- ble tenure . The acquisition of ancient learning is an accomplishment , but not an accomplishment merely . The secular records of the old universe are wrapped up in the moods and tenses of those teem- ing ...
... existence by a frail and fee- ble tenure . The acquisition of ancient learning is an accomplishment , but not an accomplishment merely . The secular records of the old universe are wrapped up in the moods and tenses of those teem- ing ...
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... existence of our ancestors . Thither or to kindred sources must be traced all the early an- nals of those countries , which now fill the world with their names - Germany , Gaul , Spain , and the nations of the east , once the barbarous ...
... existence of our ancestors . Thither or to kindred sources must be traced all the early an- nals of those countries , which now fill the world with their names - Germany , Gaul , Spain , and the nations of the east , once the barbarous ...
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... existence past , — Like the cold sable marbles raised to death , Within these fields , lone kingdoms of the tomb , Which mark the date of human dust - and say To eyes of nought convinced - This clay hath lived ! He thus illustrates the ...
... existence past , — Like the cold sable marbles raised to death , Within these fields , lone kingdoms of the tomb , Which mark the date of human dust - and say To eyes of nought convinced - This clay hath lived ! He thus illustrates the ...
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... existence here to death betrayed Thy Being hymns , which knows nor change nor shade ! Oh Italy ! thy hills of beauty weep , Where the world's histories , writ in ruins , sleep ! Where empire , passing on from clime to clime , Hath left ...
... existence here to death betrayed Thy Being hymns , which knows nor change nor shade ! Oh Italy ! thy hills of beauty weep , Where the world's histories , writ in ruins , sleep ! Where empire , passing on from clime to clime , Hath left ...
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