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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... volume . The lighter passages of song and jest were numerous in the days of the Revolution , and may be worth ... volumes , are indeed the noblest appeal and best apology for the work . The voice of two centuries of American literature ...
... volume . The lighter passages of song and jest were numerous in the days of the Revolution , and may be worth ... volumes , are indeed the noblest appeal and best apology for the work . The voice of two centuries of American literature ...
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... volumes may perhaps fall into the hands of some who are able and willing to afford additional information ; and this may be employed in the supplements to future editions , if ... VOLUME I. PAGE GEORGE SANDYS Passage from Ovid's X PREFACE .
... volumes may perhaps fall into the hands of some who are able and willing to afford additional information ; and this may be employed in the supplements to future editions , if ... VOLUME I. PAGE GEORGE SANDYS Passage from Ovid's X PREFACE .
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... volume of the third series of the Massachu- setts Historical Society's Collections , and in the second volume of Col. Force's reprints of rare tracts relating to America , where it is accompa- nied by its successor : New England's ...
... volume of the third series of the Massachu- setts Historical Society's Collections , and in the second volume of Col. Force's reprints of rare tracts relating to America , where it is accompa- nied by its successor : New England's ...
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... volumes , including not only the heavy tomes of theology in vogue in that age , but important works of classical and ... volume of twenty - six sermons , on Justification , and the Antisynodalia , " written against the proceed- ings of ...
... volumes , including not only the heavy tomes of theology in vogue in that age , but important works of classical and ... volume of twenty - six sermons , on Justification , and the Antisynodalia , " written against the proceed- ings of ...
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... volume , to indicate that it was replete with wisdom , while he indicated the folly of another by the owl reversed ... volumes he notes , on a loose slip of paper , which has retained its place for nearly ninety years , " T. H. has been ...
... volume , to indicate that it was replete with wisdom , while he indicated the folly of another by the owl reversed ... volumes he notes , on a loose slip of paper , which has retained its place for nearly ninety years , " T. H. has been ...
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