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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... person , the author by profession , is almost wholly unknown . We are rather to look for the social literary cultivation . Tested in this way , by their political representatives , their orators , their citizens who travel abroad ; the ...
... person , the author by profession , is almost wholly unknown . We are rather to look for the social literary cultivation . Tested in this way , by their political representatives , their orators , their citizens who travel abroad ; the ...
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... person , not known to us , who dates his note , July 13 , 1809 . There are thirty - one papers in all , exclusive of the introductory address to the King . The first is the Adhortatio Præsidis , a polished Latin ode , the ostensible ...
... person , not known to us , who dates his note , July 13 , 1809 . There are thirty - one papers in all , exclusive of the introductory address to the King . The first is the Adhortatio Præsidis , a polished Latin ode , the ostensible ...
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... person the pulpit : " but perhaps thou accountest a pulpit a box , and I'll tell thee a brief story to that effect . A little child being at a sermon and observing the minister very vehement in his words and bodily gesture , cried out ...
... person the pulpit : " but perhaps thou accountest a pulpit a box , and I'll tell thee a brief story to that effect . A little child being at a sermon and observing the minister very vehement in his words and bodily gesture , cried out ...
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... person of high ex- pectation . The unwearied pains of ambitious and unquiet wits , are amongst the arrangements of ages . Asia and Egypt can hold the seven wonders ; but the books , works , and motions of ambitious minds , the whole ...
... person of high ex- pectation . The unwearied pains of ambitious and unquiet wits , are amongst the arrangements of ages . Asia and Egypt can hold the seven wonders ; but the books , works , and motions of ambitious minds , the whole ...
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... person to send to buy one of the Governor's cattle . He requested him to ac- cept it as a gift , upon which the appeased oppo- nent came to him , and said , " Sir , your overcoming yourself hath overcome me . ” During a severe winter ...
... person to send to buy one of the Governor's cattle . He requested him to ac- cept it as a gift , upon which the appeased oppo- nent came to him , and said , " Sir , your overcoming yourself hath overcome me . ” During a severe winter ...
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