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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... philosophers who have reached extreme age . He retained his faculties to the last . It had always been his habit to record his observations , and various voluminous diaries from his pen are in existence . After he completed his ...
... philosophers who have reached extreme age . He retained his faculties to the last . It had always been his habit to record his observations , and various voluminous diaries from his pen are in existence . After he completed his ...
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... philosophers , accounting large estates to be an impediment to their proficiency in knowledge , dispossessed themselves of rich inherit- ances , that they might be the fitter students ; pre- ferring an opportunity of study before a ...
... philosophers , accounting large estates to be an impediment to their proficiency in knowledge , dispossessed themselves of rich inherit- ances , that they might be the fitter students ; pre- ferring an opportunity of study before a ...
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... philosopher or a magistrate . " OF A FEW PERSONS WHO LEFT THE COLONY IN 1642 . They fled for fear of want , and many of them fell into it , even to extremity , as if they had hastened into the misery which they feared and fled from ...
... philosopher or a magistrate . " OF A FEW PERSONS WHO LEFT THE COLONY IN 1642 . They fled for fear of want , and many of them fell into it , even to extremity , as if they had hastened into the misery which they feared and fled from ...
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... philosopher , and patriot . The title of Fol- ger's poem is , A Looking - glass for the Times , or the Former Spirit of New England revived in this generation . It was reprinted in 1763 . Copies of it are very rare . We are indebted for ...
... philosopher , and patriot . The title of Fol- ger's poem is , A Looking - glass for the Times , or the Former Spirit of New England revived in this generation . It was reprinted in 1763 . Copies of it are very rare . We are indebted for ...
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... philosopher in his autobiography , acknowledges his obligations to Dr. Mather , in a paragraph in which he asso- ciates the Essays to do good with a book by De Foe as " perhaps giving him a turn of thinking that had an influence on some ...
... philosopher in his autobiography , acknowledges his obligations to Dr. Mather , in a paragraph in which he asso- ciates the Essays to do good with a book by De Foe as " perhaps giving him a turn of thinking that had an influence on some ...
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