American Quarterly Review, Volume 17Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1835 - American literature |
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... principle that she imposes no curb nor shackle upon the human powers . What free state has ever discouraged the study of elegant literature ? Sparta was a republic when Ly- curgus gathered the fragments of Homer from the corners of ...
... principle that she imposes no curb nor shackle upon the human powers . What free state has ever discouraged the study of elegant literature ? Sparta was a republic when Ly- curgus gathered the fragments of Homer from the corners of ...
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... principles of taste are invoked to adorn and refine the architecture and amusements of the nation . The theatre takes the place of the resorts of dissolute riot , and gradually becomes a school where the people may be instructed through ...
... principles of taste are invoked to adorn and refine the architecture and amusements of the nation . The theatre takes the place of the resorts of dissolute riot , and gradually becomes a school where the people may be instructed through ...
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... principles of their art , and discriminated with surprising grace and power their various characteristics and excellencies . Mitford , with an affected orthography , and even greater defects of a differ- ent order , would much enhance ...
... principles of their art , and discriminated with surprising grace and power their various characteristics and excellencies . Mitford , with an affected orthography , and even greater defects of a differ- ent order , would much enhance ...
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... principle , is unfavorable to the cherishing those clanish feelings of propinquity which we meet in ancient families . " Gambling is the bane of Lima society . Though many laws have been made against it , monte al dao ' is played ...
... principle , is unfavorable to the cherishing those clanish feelings of propinquity which we meet in ancient families . " Gambling is the bane of Lima society . Though many laws have been made against it , monte al dao ' is played ...
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... principle the Congress proceeded in their late promotion of general offi- cers . He was informed , that the members from each State seemed to insist upon having a proportion of general officers , adequate to the number of men which they ...
... principle the Congress proceeded in their late promotion of general offi- cers . He was informed , that the members from each State seemed to insist upon having a proportion of general officers , adequate to the number of men which they ...
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