American Quarterly Review, Volume 17Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1835 - American literature |
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... human happiness , yet is it limited among us , by the prevailing sentiment , in a manner as pitiful as it is mis- taken . As a nation , we pursue nothing but the palpable ; believe , trust , hope in nothing that has not a plain ...
... human happiness , yet is it limited among us , by the prevailing sentiment , in a manner as pitiful as it is mis- taken . As a nation , we pursue nothing but the palpable ; believe , trust , hope in nothing that has not a plain ...
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... human soul , all attempts to bind man down to the earth , or to contract the empire of the ideal , are indicative merely of a false perception of the nature of our species . We live but on an isthmus , look- ing on either side over the ...
... human soul , all attempts to bind man down to the earth , or to contract the empire of the ideal , are indicative merely of a false perception of the nature of our species . We live but on an isthmus , look- ing on either side over the ...
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... human nature , who always examined mankind under the influence of one set of institutions . For our own part , we rejoice that there is not any such thing , nor can be , as American education ; that to a certain extent the mind of all ...
... human nature , who always examined mankind under the influence of one set of institutions . For our own part , we rejoice that there is not any such thing , nor can be , as American education ; that to a certain extent the mind of all ...
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... human greatness , attention ; to give a command of the faculties , to such degree of investigation as their tender expansion will permit ; to enlarge and strengthen them by judicious exercise ; and for this purpose language is selected ...
... human greatness , attention ; to give a command of the faculties , to such degree of investigation as their tender expansion will permit ; to enlarge and strengthen them by judicious exercise ; and for this purpose language is selected ...
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... human im- provement , some tokens of liberal and laborious study . As it is , how few think it necessary to learn , to observe , to reflect , to pass through the stages of knowledge , before , as if already at the goal , they commence ...
... human im- provement , some tokens of liberal and laborious study . As it is , how few think it necessary to learn , to observe , to reflect , to pass through the stages of knowledge , before , as if already at the goal , they commence ...
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