American Quarterly Review, Volume 17Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1835 - American literature |
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... once more to call attention to the issue presented by them - an old one , it is true , and long ago settled to the satisfaction of the en- lightened of many ages and countries , but destined again and again to be re - agitated whenever ...
... once more to call attention to the issue presented by them - an old one , it is true , and long ago settled to the satisfaction of the en- lightened of many ages and countries , but destined again and again to be re - agitated whenever ...
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... once of an argu- ment built upon so strange a hallucination . Indeed , it appears to us , that from the outset Mr. Grimké has mistaken the nature and end as well as the effect of classical education , and that in this view we might ...
... once of an argu- ment built upon so strange a hallucination . Indeed , it appears to us , that from the outset Mr. Grimké has mistaken the nature and end as well as the effect of classical education , and that in this view we might ...
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... once mastered these ancient vehicles of thought , descends , as from an eminence , how familiarly , compared with the mere vernacular scholar , into all or any of the dialects of modern Europe , and , which is of more importance , bet ...
... once mastered these ancient vehicles of thought , descends , as from an eminence , how familiarly , compared with the mere vernacular scholar , into all or any of the dialects of modern Europe , and , which is of more importance , bet ...
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... once elegant and just , in forcible and appropriate numbers . Its terse and dignified prose , characterized by that best definition of a good style , " proper words in proper places , " to rival which , modern historians and critics ...
... once elegant and just , in forcible and appropriate numbers . Its terse and dignified prose , characterized by that best definition of a good style , " proper words in proper places , " to rival which , modern historians and critics ...
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... once the barbarous provinces of that mighty people whose blood runs in the veins of the whole earth , as their language has intermin- gled its syllables of conquest with the vocabularies of the globe . We do not apprehend for America ...
... once the barbarous provinces of that mighty people whose blood runs in the veins of the whole earth , as their language has intermin- gled its syllables of conquest with the vocabularies of the globe . We do not apprehend for America ...
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