American Quarterly Review, Volume 17Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1835 - American literature |
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... less to improvement than to alteration , and bending its energies agreeably to each new im- pulse , is the direct antagonist of social order . It tampers igno- rantly with the most delicate elements , and foolishly rushes in " where ...
... less to improvement than to alteration , and bending its energies agreeably to each new im- pulse , is the direct antagonist of social order . It tampers igno- rantly with the most delicate elements , and foolishly rushes in " where ...
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... less important than a change in the whole system of collegiate education , and a substitution of a course of training , untried , partial , and we must add , narrow , for the studies on which the experience of centuries has set its seal ...
... less important than a change in the whole system of collegiate education , and a substitution of a course of training , untried , partial , and we must add , narrow , for the studies on which the experience of centuries has set its seal ...
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... less variety , and with equal suc- cess by Sir Thomas Smith , Gill , Butler , and a host of others , ) he will have carefully unfitted himself for the perusal of the Eng- lish language as written on the other side of the Atlantic , and ...
... less variety , and with equal suc- cess by Sir Thomas Smith , Gill , Butler , and a host of others , ) he will have carefully unfitted himself for the perusal of the Eng- lish language as written on the other side of the Atlantic , and ...
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... less than nine passages from which are quoted in this single address , Milman furnishing one which is pronounced " unrivald by aught to be found in the pages of Homer and Virgil . " In the meantime the mind of the pupil will be enlarged ...
... less than nine passages from which are quoted in this single address , Milman furnishing one which is pronounced " unrivald by aught to be found in the pages of Homer and Virgil . " In the meantime the mind of the pupil will be enlarged ...
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... less important matters . He may follow the progress of the social system , from the patriarchal union of priest and king , through the multiplied phases of government , up to the perfec- tion of a polished democracy , thence down the ...
... less important matters . He may follow the progress of the social system , from the patriarchal union of priest and king , through the multiplied phases of government , up to the perfec- tion of a polished democracy , thence down the ...
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