Cyclopædia of American Literature: Embracing Personal and Ciritcal Notices of Authors, and Selections from Their Writings. From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; with Portraits, Autographs, and Other IllustrationsC. Scribner, 1856 - American literature |
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... look for the social literary cultivation . Tested in this way , by their political representatives , their orators , their citizens who travel abroad ; the men who are to be met at home , on the plantations , and in large rural ...
... look for the social literary cultivation . Tested in this way , by their political representatives , their orators , their citizens who travel abroad ; the men who are to be met at home , on the plantations , and in large rural ...
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... human book contains the whole truth of any subject ; and that , in order to get at the real end of any matter , we must be careful to look at both sides . " Mather act to inveigle the whole board of the col- HARVARD COLLEGE . 9.
... human book contains the whole truth of any subject ; and that , in order to get at the real end of any matter , we must be careful to look at both sides . " Mather act to inveigle the whole board of the col- HARVARD COLLEGE . 9.
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... look . Again , an illustration worthy of Milton : " Non senescit veritas . No man ever saw a gray hair on the head or beard of any Truth , wrinkle or morphew on its face : the bed of Truth is green all the year long . " This is very ...
... look . Again , an illustration worthy of Milton : " Non senescit veritas . No man ever saw a gray hair on the head or beard of any Truth , wrinkle or morphew on its face : the bed of Truth is green all the year long . " This is very ...
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... look , And tell uprightly , which did which excel : He view'd and view'd , and vow'd he could not tell . They bid him hemisphere his mouldy nose , With's crack'd leering glasses , for it would pose The best brains he had in's old ...
... look , And tell uprightly , which did which excel : He view'd and view'd , and vow'd he could not tell . They bid him hemisphere his mouldy nose , With's crack'd leering glasses , for it would pose The best brains he had in's old ...
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... look with Mercy's face , And through thy Christ have felt thy saving grace . This is the Heav'n on Earth , if any be : For this , and all , my soul doth worship Thee . " Another poem , made by Mr. Cotton ( as it seemeth ) , upon his ...
... look with Mercy's face , And through thy Christ have felt thy saving grace . This is the Heav'n on Earth , if any be : For this , and all , my soul doth worship Thee . " Another poem , made by Mr. Cotton ( as it seemeth ) , upon his ...
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