A Compendium of American Literature: Chronologically Arranged, with Biographical Sketches of the Authors and Selections from Their WorksParry & McMillan, 1859 - 784 sider |
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... thoughts were , of course , directed to our own condition , to our relations to the mother country , to our forms of ... thought , for just and sound reasoning , and for effective and lofty elo- quence , the world had never seen the ...
... thoughts were , of course , directed to our own condition , to our relations to the mother country , to our forms of ... thought , for just and sound reasoning , and for effective and lofty elo- quence , the world had never seen the ...
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... thought that I might not inaptly be compared to the simpleton in Hierocles , who , when he had a house for sale , carried about a brick in his pocket as a specimen . But the idea also occurred to me that the Grecian was not so far wrong ...
... thought that I might not inaptly be compared to the simpleton in Hierocles , who , when he had a house for sale , carried about a brick in his pocket as a specimen . But the idea also occurred to me that the Grecian was not so far wrong ...
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... thought or cared what was the latitude of the writer's birth , but only what were his merits . In my second edition , having sixty new names , I introduced a few more Southern writers , numeri- cally , but not more in proportion ; for ...
... thought or cared what was the latitude of the writer's birth , but only what were his merits . In my second edition , having sixty new names , I introduced a few more Southern writers , numeri- cally , but not more in proportion ; for ...
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... thought , with reason , that I made a very singular and grotesque appear- ance . I then turned the corner , and went through Chestnut Street , eating my roll all the way ; and , having made this round , I found myself again on Market ...
... thought , with reason , that I made a very singular and grotesque appear- ance . I then turned the corner , and went through Chestnut Street , eating my roll all the way ; and , having made this round , I found myself again on Market ...
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... thought I met with many , very many , who gave too much for the whistle . When I saw any one too ambitious of court favor , -sacrificing his time in attendance at levees , his repose , his liberty , his virtue , and perhaps his friends ...
... thought I met with many , very many , who gave too much for the whistle . When I saw any one too ambitious of court favor , -sacrificing his time in attendance at levees , his repose , his liberty , his virtue , and perhaps his friends ...
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