Cyclopaedia of American Literature: Embracing Personal and Critical Notices of Authors, and Selections from Their Writings. From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; with Portraits, Autographs, and Other Illustrations, Volume 1C. Scribner, 1855 - American literature |
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... gave life to the early seats of learning , the first race of chroniclers , several genial observers of nature , as the Bartrams , and an occasional quaint poet , who penned verses without consulting the pleasure of Minerva . In this ...
... gave life to the early seats of learning , the first race of chroniclers , several genial observers of nature , as the Bartrams , and an occasional quaint poet , who penned verses without consulting the pleasure of Minerva . In this ...
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... gave a new range to divinity and moral science , in writers like Channing ; Calhoun and Webster illustrated the principles of political science ; Marshall , Kent , and Story interpreted law ; Paulding , Irving , Cooper , Simms , Emerson ...
... gave a new range to divinity and moral science , in writers like Channing ; Calhoun and Webster illustrated the principles of political science ; Marshall , Kent , and Story interpreted law ; Paulding , Irving , Cooper , Simms , Emerson ...
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... gave the most important assistance , seemed additional warrant to devote considerable space to this research . The Revolutionary matter presented similar claims . It was novel , much of it not generally attainable , and it was full of ...
... gave the most important assistance , seemed additional warrant to devote considerable space to this research . The Revolutionary matter presented similar claims . It was novel , much of it not generally attainable , and it was full of ...
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... gave and collected books for the library with valuable counsel , and for- Quincy's History of Harvard University , i . 62 . + Mass . Hist . Soc . Coll . , First Series , viii . 182 , quoted by Peirce . Peirce's Hist . of Harvard , p ...
... gave and collected books for the library with valuable counsel , and for- Quincy's History of Harvard University , i . 62 . + Mass . Hist . Soc . Coll . , First Series , viii . 182 , quoted by Peirce . Peirce's Hist . of Harvard , p ...
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... gave him milk : in lordly dish she fetch'd Ilim butter forth unto the nail : she forth her left hand stretched : Her right hand to the workman's maul and Sisera hammered : She pierced and struck his temples through , and then cut off ...
... gave him milk : in lordly dish she fetch'd Ilim butter forth unto the nail : she forth her left hand stretched : Her right hand to the workman's maul and Sisera hammered : She pierced and struck his temples through , and then cut off ...
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