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... noble and heroic archetype for the innumerable noble frontiersmen who were to crowd the pages of subsequent nineteenth - century popular novels . Indeed , ' Leatherstocking ' was a not unworthy psychological successor of the ' noble ...
... noble and heroic archetype for the innumerable noble frontiersmen who were to crowd the pages of subsequent nineteenth - century popular novels . Indeed , ' Leatherstocking ' was a not unworthy psychological successor of the ' noble ...
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... noble savages , strikes the same note : ' Indeed he appears to be a perfectly rational and intelligent man , with an understanding far superior to the common race of us cultivated gentry.'26 Omai was an atypical specimen of his genus in ...
... noble savages , strikes the same note : ' Indeed he appears to be a perfectly rational and intelligent man , with an understanding far superior to the common race of us cultivated gentry.'26 Omai was an atypical specimen of his genus in ...
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... noble savage ' . But in 1845 another writer made the connection even more explicitly than in the above passage . He ... noble savage.28 F. J. Turner , apparently unwittingly , gives a clue to the economic reasons why the noble ...
... noble savage ' . But in 1845 another writer made the connection even more explicitly than in the above passage . He ... noble savage.28 F. J. Turner , apparently unwittingly , gives a clue to the economic reasons why the noble ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 14 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 43 |
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