American Quarterly Review, Volume 17Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1835 - American literature |
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... influences than any other nation , so in many respects we are worse provid- ed against its effects . In Europe , there is a barrier over which Lycurgus himself , with a new code in his hand , would find it hard to climb . Established ...
... influences than any other nation , so in many respects we are worse provid- ed against its effects . In Europe , there is a barrier over which Lycurgus himself , with a new code in his hand , would find it hard to climb . Established ...
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... influence . We do not allude to that conventional tone , arising from the adoption of a highly artificial system of manners and modes of thought — a state of things only to be found in an old community with a rich and in- fluential ...
... influence . We do not allude to that conventional tone , arising from the adoption of a highly artificial system of manners and modes of thought — a state of things only to be found in an old community with a rich and in- fluential ...
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... influence of a polity which addresses the imagination , the taste , and the judgment , and leads , even in an imperfect state of society , to the contemplation of the sublime in nature and in art . Unless we have greatly mistaken the ...
... influence of a polity which addresses the imagination , the taste , and the judgment , and leads , even in an imperfect state of society , to the contemplation of the sublime in nature and in art . Unless we have greatly mistaken the ...
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... influence , against the rightful dominion of Christian and American institutions , is leading a multitude to think , who never thought before of the subject , and is gra- dualy producing salutary changes . This great controversy , which ...
... influence , against the rightful dominion of Christian and American institutions , is leading a multitude to think , who never thought before of the subject , and is gra- dualy producing salutary changes . This great controversy , which ...
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... 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 civilized nations must follow the same path ...
... 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 civilized nations must follow the same path ...
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