American Quarterly Review, Volume 17Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1835 - American literature |
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... original . We can conceive no other effect from an American education , as contra - distinguished from a classical one , than gradually to de- prive the student of the light of ancient and foreign learning , without giving him in its ...
... original . We can conceive no other effect from an American education , as contra - distinguished from a classical one , than gradually to de- prive the student of the light of ancient and foreign learning , without giving him in its ...
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... of the Roman name . They widely and vehemently err , who suppose that they can safely omit * Milton : Tractate of Education . a constant recurrence to original principles , or allow the 1835. ] 15 Classical Learning .
... of the Roman name . They widely and vehemently err , who suppose that they can safely omit * Milton : Tractate of Education . a constant recurrence to original principles , or allow the 1835. ] 15 Classical Learning .
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Robert Walsh. a constant recurrence to original principles , or allow the sanctions and evidence of their truth to perish from the national remem- brance . One step in silence over a prostrate right , is a stride to- wards the ruin of ...
Robert Walsh. a constant recurrence to original principles , or allow the sanctions and evidence of their truth to perish from the national remem- brance . One step in silence over a prostrate right , is a stride to- wards the ruin of ...
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... original , and philosophical of the Roman poets , lead them only to the " Horace whom they hated so . " Considering the number of students yearly graduated by our fifty colleges , the instances of accurate and com- prehensive ...
... original , and philosophical of the Roman poets , lead them only to the " Horace whom they hated so . " Considering the number of students yearly graduated by our fifty colleges , the instances of accurate and com- prehensive ...
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... original though distorted genius , and so ( to swell the list no farther ) did Horace Walpole , of whose Nuge we have recently had a new relish , and who , with scarcely an exception , is the most delightful of English letter - writers ...
... original though distorted genius , and so ( to swell the list no farther ) did Horace Walpole , of whose Nuge we have recently had a new relish , and who , with scarcely an exception , is the most delightful of English letter - writers ...
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