American Quarterly Review, Volume 17Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1835 - American literature |
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... mind , looking 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 ...
... mind , looking 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 ...
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... mind capable of intense and enthusiastic devotion , better , even in a bad cause , than a listless and heartless advoca- tion of a good one . But the evil that men do lives after them , ' spreading too frequently on the faith of ancient ...
... mind capable of intense and enthusiastic devotion , better , even in a bad cause , than a listless and heartless advoca- tion of a good one . But the evil that men do lives after them , ' spreading too frequently on the faith of ancient ...
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... mind of the pupil will be enlarged and expanded , and his knowledge of the history of his species consummated by an intense and continual study of American constitutions , literature , and laws . He will doubtless be satisfied that the ...
... mind of the pupil will be enlarged and expanded , and his knowledge of the history of his species consummated by an intense and continual study of American constitutions , literature , and laws . He will doubtless be satisfied that the ...
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... mind of all civilized nations must follow the same path , contemplate the same cycles , and love and fear and hope in sym- pathy with the same actors ; that the utmost rage of literary radi- calism , and ( we speak of its application ...
... mind of all civilized nations must follow the same path , contemplate the same cycles , and love and fear and hope in sym- pathy with the same actors ; that the utmost rage of literary radi- calism , and ( we speak of its application ...
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... mind is busied in devising means to live , or interested in pursuits of urgent and absorbing import- ance . Most of ... mind is not ripe for complex political lectures , and refined , legal , and constitutional arguments . It is the ...
... mind is busied in devising means to live , or interested in pursuits of urgent and absorbing import- ance . Most of ... mind is not ripe for complex political lectures , and refined , legal , and constitutional arguments . It is the ...
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