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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... 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 period there is rudeness ...
... 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 period there is rudeness ...
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... learning , drawing together numerous professors ; its commercial centres , calling forth the powers of the press ; its great cities , have given it the advantage in the number of authors : but without these important stimuli , the South ...
... learning , drawing together numerous professors ; its commercial centres , calling forth the powers of the press ; its great cities , have given it the advantage in the number of authors : but without these important stimuli , the South ...
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... learning with which they are connected . It may not be amiss here , for the prevention of possible comparisons in future , to state , that in some instances - to the extent , perhaps , of three or four pages of the book - we are under a ...
... learning with which they are connected . It may not be amiss here , for the prevention of possible comparisons in future , to state , that in some instances - to the extent , perhaps , of three or four pages of the book - we are under a ...
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... Learning 165 in America . DAVID FRENCH 116 CHARLES THOMSON 170 Odes of Anacreon . • ROBERT ROGERS 170 MATHER BYLES · 116 To Desiring to borrow Pope's Homer . The War Song . A full and true account of how the lamentable wicked JOSEPH ...
... Learning 165 in America . DAVID FRENCH 116 CHARLES THOMSON 170 Odes of Anacreon . • ROBERT ROGERS 170 MATHER BYLES · 116 To Desiring to borrow Pope's Homer . The War Song . A full and true account of how the lamentable wicked JOSEPH ...
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... learning , having been Professor of Hebrew and Greek in Trinity College , Cam- bridge , and of general worth , though of wavering doctrinal consistency . He had his share in Eng- land of Laud's ecclesiastical interferences , and had ...
... learning , having been Professor of Hebrew and Greek in Trinity College , Cam- bridge , and of general worth , though of wavering doctrinal consistency . He had his share in Eng- land of Laud's ecclesiastical interferences , and had ...
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