American Quarterly Review, Volume 17Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1835 - American literature |
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... spirit . Reducing every pursuit and enterprise to a sin- gle aim , and trying it by a single test , it strikes all that is disin- terested from motive , all that is lofty from society , all that is courteous from manners . It asks a ...
... spirit . Reducing every pursuit and enterprise to a sin- gle aim , and trying it by a single test , it strikes all that is disin- terested from motive , all that is lofty from society , all that is courteous from manners . It asks a ...
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... whe- ther you have a soul , but , by heaven , I feel that I have one . It was the answer of spirit to sense , and the best that could have وو been given . None but an idiot believes that he 1835.1 5 Classical Learning .
... whe- ther you have a soul , but , by heaven , I feel that I have one . It was the answer of spirit to sense , and the best that could have وو been given . None but an idiot believes that he 1835.1 5 Classical Learning .
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Robert Walsh. peculiar institutions of the Jews , which is opposed to the spirit of Christianity and republicanism , than in those of Greece or Rome in any phase of their earlier history . No one , however , fears the impression . The ...
Robert Walsh. peculiar institutions of the Jews , which is opposed to the spirit of Christianity and republicanism , than in those of Greece or Rome in any phase of their earlier history . No one , however , fears the impression . The ...
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... spirit , which carries them safe through the wreck of empires and the changes of opinion . " Works like these are formed by no rule , but become a model and a rule to other men . Few , however , among us , are permitted to show this ...
... spirit , which carries them safe through the wreck of empires and the changes of opinion . " Works like these are formed by no rule , but become a model and a rule to other men . Few , however , among us , are permitted to show this ...
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... spirit of antiquity . To enter upon a pursuit by which he may trace up all the uninspired ethics of the modern world to their early sources , and uncover the old fountains of the fertilizing Nile . To find whence the tongue we speak ...
... spirit of antiquity . To enter upon a pursuit by which he may trace up all the uninspired ethics of the modern world to their early sources , and uncover the old fountains of the fertilizing Nile . To find whence the tongue we speak ...
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