American Quarterly Review, Volume 17Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1835 - American literature |
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... thing generous and noble in national character , than the perpetual reference of every thing to its equivalent in common and ordinary estimation . The prin- ciple carried out , would reduce the earth to a hive , and every fragrant and ...
... thing generous and noble in national character , than the perpetual reference of every thing to its equivalent in common and ordinary estimation . The prin- ciple carried out , would reduce the earth to a hive , and every fragrant and ...
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... thing substantial or satisfac- tory . The very objection which is urged against the study of the learned languages , that they depict a state of society with which VOL . XVII.-No. 33. • 2 we have nothing in common , would , were it. 1835 ...
... thing substantial or satisfac- tory . The very objection which is urged against the study of the learned languages , that they depict a state of society with which VOL . XVII.-No. 33. • 2 we have nothing in common , would , were it. 1835 ...
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... thing , nor can be , as American education ; that to a certain extent the 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 ...
... thing , nor can be , as American education ; that to a certain extent the 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 ...
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... things , which the boy learns out of his school books , is next to nothing , -scarcely more in a course of years than the man of full - grown and well - trained faculties might acquire in as many months .. The object then is rather to ...
... things , which the boy learns out of his school books , is next to nothing , -scarcely more in a course of years than the man of full - grown and well - trained faculties might acquire in as many months .. The object then is rather to ...
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... things which have been said of it ( partly by ourselves ) , are adverse to the growth and cultivation of the more delicate and finer species of literature . I complain especially , that classical literature is little cultivated ; less ...
... things which have been said of it ( partly by ourselves ) , are adverse to the growth and cultivation of the more delicate and finer species of literature . I complain especially , that classical literature is little cultivated ; less ...
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