American Quarterly Review, Volume 17Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1835 - American literature |
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... letters . And America was a republic yet stretching her infant limbs , and struggling with her early wants , when , if small things may fol- low great , the apostle of modern democracy deemed it , as it was , the glory of his life to ...
... letters . And America was a republic yet stretching her infant limbs , and struggling with her early wants , when , if small things may fol- low great , the apostle of modern democracy deemed it , as it was , the glory of his life to ...
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... letters and the invention of the printing press , affords an illustration to which it is sufficient at present merely to allude . Should we be referred to the greatest name in English literature as a refutation of our theory , while we ...
... letters and the invention of the printing press , affords an illustration to which it is sufficient at present merely to allude . Should we be referred to the greatest name in English literature as a refutation of our theory , while we ...
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... letter but is profitable for in- struction - not a line but may mark an event . The restoration of a crooked character * almost fixed the birth - place of Homer- * The Æolic Digamma . the Greek Olympiads saved the chronology of the ...
... letter but is profitable for in- struction - not a line but may mark an event . The restoration of a crooked character * almost fixed the birth - place of Homer- * The Æolic Digamma . the Greek Olympiads saved the chronology of the ...
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... letter - writers . * What martyrdom to such minds to be cooped up within a right - angled triangle or an oblate spheroid ! Yet such has been the fate , and is at this moment the fate , of many a youth , whose heart is dried up within ...
... letter - writers . * What martyrdom to such minds to be cooped up within a right - angled triangle or an oblate spheroid ! Yet such has been the fate , and is at this moment the fate , of many a youth , whose heart is dried up within ...
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... letters ! " Were every individual in the class disposed , like this , to play King Log , it might be tolerated ; society might move uninjured about the inanimate mass ; but when , as too frequently happens , its members are disposed to ...
... letters ! " Were every individual in the class disposed , like this , to play King Log , it might be tolerated ; society might move uninjured about the inanimate mass ; but when , as too frequently happens , its members are disposed to ...
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