American Quarterly Review, Volume 17Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1835 - American literature |
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... living evidence of ancient mind . Its mythological machinery and peculiar political im- press , of which Mr. Grimké expresses such apprehension , are viewed by every student as memorials of a state of society that has long since ...
... living evidence of ancient mind . Its mythological machinery and peculiar political im- press , of which Mr. Grimké expresses such apprehension , are viewed by every student as memorials of a state of society that has long since ...
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... living languages , and have discovered how difficult it is to impress upon the memory , preoccupied , almost indurated as it is , a few simple inflexions , which a child can lay up for life in half an hour . To attain a language is not ...
... living languages , and have discovered how difficult it is to impress upon the memory , preoccupied , almost indurated as it is , a few simple inflexions , which a child can lay up for life in half an hour . To attain a language is not ...
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... living languages of civilized man ; so that he , who has 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 ...
... living languages of civilized man ; so that he , who has 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 ...
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... living , has also greatly attained towards accuracy of thought , as well as propriety and en- ergy of speech . For divers philosophers hold , ' says Shakspeare , clothing philo- sophy in the mantle of the Muse , ' that the lip is parcel ...
... living , has also greatly attained towards accuracy of thought , as well as propriety and en- ergy of speech . For divers philosophers hold , ' says Shakspeare , clothing philo- sophy in the mantle of the Muse , ' that the lip is parcel ...
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... living fountain of their genius . Wonderful and mysterious is the intellectual communion we hold with them ! Visions of imagination , starting from their souls , as if struck out by creative power , are turned into words , and fixed in ...
... living fountain of their genius . Wonderful and mysterious is the intellectual communion we hold with them ! Visions of imagination , starting from their souls , as if struck out by creative power , are turned into words , and fixed in ...
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