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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... wrote the first historical records , who furnished the supplies for the first presses , were Englishmen by birth , as they and their successors were by political constitution , down to the comparatively recent period of the Revolution ...
... wrote the first historical records , who furnished the supplies for the first presses , were Englishmen by birth , as they and their successors were by political constitution , down to the comparatively recent period of the Revolution ...
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... wrote : " From a strict attention to the state of mind in this country , before the year 1774 , and at the present time , I am satisfied the ratio of intellect is as twenty to one , and of knowledge as one hundred to one , in these ...
... wrote : " From a strict attention to the state of mind in this country , before the year 1774 , and at the present time , I am satisfied the ratio of intellect is as twenty to one , and of knowledge as one hundred to one , in these ...
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... wrote by him for the boys who carried out the weekly news - papers to their master's customers in Philadelphia ; to whom commonly every New- Year's day , they present verses of this kind . SAMUEL KEIMER . PAGE 85 JOHN WOOLMAN • 92 ...
... wrote by him for the boys who carried out the weekly news - papers to their master's customers in Philadelphia ; to whom commonly every New- Year's day , they present verses of this kind . SAMUEL KEIMER . PAGE 85 JOHN WOOLMAN • 92 ...
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... wrote in welcoming his beloved England , and in which he does not forget the perils of the American wilderness in That new - found - out - world , where sober night Takes from the Antipodes her silent flight , and where he had been ...
... wrote in welcoming his beloved England , and in which he does not forget the perils of the American wilderness in That new - found - out - world , where sober night Takes from the Antipodes her silent flight , and where he had been ...
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... wrote with a view to furnish information rather than to gain the reputation of an author or scholar . He confines himself to the subject matter in hand , seldom digressing into comment or reflection . His descriptions are ani- mated ...
... wrote with a view to furnish information rather than to gain the reputation of an author or scholar . He confines himself to the subject matter in hand , seldom digressing into comment or reflection . His descriptions are ani- mated ...
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