American Quarterly Review, Volume 17Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1835 - American literature |
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... force of our institutions . A looker - on might suppose that we have enough to grapple with in the heterogene- ous nature of our population , and the problems which the pro- gress of government affords for our solution , without ...
... force of our institutions . A looker - on might suppose that we have enough to grapple with in the heterogene- ous nature of our population , and the problems which the pro- gress of government affords for our solution , without ...
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... force them an inch upward . " Det vitam , det opes , " is their prayer to Jove , content with the ears of Midas , if they can obtain his power of touch along with them . Until the imagination ceases to be a faculty of the human soul ...
... force them an inch upward . " Det vitam , det opes , " is their prayer to Jove , content with the ears of Midas , if they can obtain his power of touch along with them . Until the imagination ceases to be a faculty of the human soul ...
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... force which , when speculation is in any degree free , can hardly be counteracted even by the agency to which we have adverted . Even where the rights of property are affected , and the selfish principle comes strongly to the assistance ...
... force which , when speculation is in any degree free , can hardly be counteracted even by the agency to which we have adverted . Even where the rights of property are affected , and the selfish principle comes strongly to the assistance ...
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... force , and harmony , in any language , dead or living , has also greatly attained towards accuracy of thought , as well as propriety and en- ergy of speech . For divers philosophers hold , ' says Shakspeare , clothing philo- sophy in ...
... force , and harmony , in any language , dead or living , has also greatly attained towards accuracy of thought , as well as propriety and en- ergy of speech . For divers philosophers hold , ' says Shakspeare , clothing philo- sophy in ...
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... force frequently depend upon a pronunciation , of which the moderns have lost the very shadow . That it is not , in the language of a greater than Rollin , " to learn a few words with lamentable construction , " to load the memory with ...
... force frequently depend upon a pronunciation , of which the moderns have lost the very shadow . That it is not , in the language of a greater than Rollin , " to learn a few words with lamentable construction , " to load the memory with ...
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