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"If the method of public agitation could find quiet and orderly expression in legislative enactment, and if labor measures could be submitted to the examination and judgment of the whole without a sense of division or of warfare, ...
"If the method of public agitation could find quiet and orderly expression in legislative enactment, and if labor measures could be submitted to the examination and judgment of the whole without a sense of division or of warfare, ...
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Bradstreet repeats her sense of strain in the manuscript book she left for her children, saying that God granted her wish, giving her the children she asked for, and now she wants to take care of their spiritual well-being.
Bradstreet repeats her sense of strain in the manuscript book she left for her children, saying that God granted her wish, giving her the children she asked for, and now she wants to take care of their spiritual well-being.
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Quite early in her account, she states her belief that the senses cannot be trusted and that human actions based on ... be in error: "The will is the tool of the understanding, which must fashion its conclusion on the notices of sense.
Quite early in her account, she states her belief that the senses cannot be trusted and that human actions based on ... be in error: "The will is the tool of the understanding, which must fashion its conclusion on the notices of sense.
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictThis supplement, the latest addition to the well-known "American Writers'' series, includes 29 authors. All except Frederick Douglass, the 19th-century orator and writer, are 20th-century poets ... Read full review
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| Title | American writers: a collection of literary biographies. Jane Addams to Sidney Lanier |
| Editor | Leonard Unger |
| Publisher | Charles Scribner's sons, 1979 |
| ISBN | 0684157977, 9780684157979 |
| Length | 373 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / American / General |
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