American Quarterly Review, Volume 17Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1835 - American literature |
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... thought , and shackled by no venerable forms , he is sure to strike some responsive cord among the mil- lions of his fellow - citizens . The imagination , which in old countries is fed from the past , and principally by the material ...
... thought , and shackled by no venerable forms , he is sure to strike some responsive cord among the mil- lions of his fellow - citizens . The imagination , which in old countries is fed from the past , and principally by the material ...
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... thought and conversation , more hostile to individual elevation of mind , and more paralyzing to every thing generous and noble in national character , than the perpetual reference of every thing to its equivalent in common and ordinary ...
... thought and conversation , more hostile to individual elevation of mind , and more paralyzing to every thing generous and noble in national character , than the perpetual reference of every thing to its equivalent in common and ordinary ...
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... thought — a state of things only to be found in an old community with a rich and in- fluential metropolis , and not necessarily to be desired if attaina- ble - but to those elevated and refined feelings , resulting from the ...
... thought — a state of things only to be found in an old community with a rich and in- fluential metropolis , and not necessarily to be desired if attaina- ble - but to those elevated and refined feelings , resulting from the ...
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... thought before of the subject , and is gra- dualy producing salutary changes . This great controversy , which may be consid- erd as just begun , is itself a rich source of the noblest thoughts which belong to the department of duty to ...
... thought before of the subject , and is gra- dualy producing salutary changes . This great controversy , which may be consid- erd as just begun , is itself a rich source of the noblest thoughts which belong to the department of duty to ...
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... 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- ter understands his own . For we cannot ...
... 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- ter understands his own . For we cannot ...
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