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... nature and value . The General Survey of each period presents briefly the social and political conditions under which the various authors wrote . The sketches of the rep- resentative writers give with considerable fulness the leading ...
... nature and value . The General Survey of each period presents briefly the social and political conditions under which the various authors wrote . The sketches of the rep- resentative writers give with considerable fulness the leading ...
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... nature of this element depends upon the culture and experience of the people . Nowhere else has life been more ... natural heritage . The leading movements in the literary history of England have been reflected in America . In many cases ...
... nature of this element depends upon the culture and experience of the people . Nowhere else has life been more ... natural heritage . The leading movements in the literary history of England have been reflected in America . In many cases ...
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... nature ; and in her descriptions of flowers , and birds , and streams , she often reaches the plane of genuine poetry . Her moralizing is naturally in the sombre Puritan vein . In her " Contemplations , " a moral 22 AMERICAN LITERATURE.
... nature ; and in her descriptions of flowers , and birds , and streams , she often reaches the plane of genuine poetry . Her moralizing is naturally in the sombre Puritan vein . In her " Contemplations , " a moral 22 AMERICAN LITERATURE.
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... nature , which asserted itself strongly even in his youth , and drove him to continual introspection . Troubled with ... natural for him to think of the ministry . Unfortunately , he was embarrassed by a strongly marked impediment of ...
... nature , which asserted itself strongly even in his youth , and drove him to continual introspection . Troubled with ... natural for him to think of the ministry . Unfortunately , he was embarrassed by a strongly marked impediment of ...
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... our posterity , and our neighbors , that to which nature and the honor of our country have given us a right the liberty of opposing arbitrary power by speaking and writing truth . " $ 2 . Numb . 1 . The Bofton News 42 AMERICAN LITERATURE.
... our posterity , and our neighbors , that to which nature and the honor of our country have given us a right the liberty of opposing arbitrary power by speaking and writing truth . " $ 2 . Numb . 1 . The Bofton News 42 AMERICAN LITERATURE.
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