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It was an age of repression , not to say oppression , for children , who had few rights that their elders were bound to respect . To the terrors of the secular arm were added the deeper terrors of the spiritual law , for the people of ...
It was an age of repression , not to say oppression , for children , who had few rights that their elders were bound to respect . To the terrors of the secular arm were added the deeper terrors of the spiritual law , for the people of ...
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“ Thanatopsis ” was sent to the North American Review ( whether by its author or his father we are not told ) , and with such a modest , not to say enigmatical , note of introduction , that its authorship was left in doubt .
“ Thanatopsis ” was sent to the North American Review ( whether by its author or his father we are not told ) , and with such a modest , not to say enigmatical , note of introduction , that its authorship was left in doubt .
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We can say of none of them , “ The man who wrote this will never write any better . ” The publication of Mr. Bryant's little volume of verse was indirectly the cause of his adopting literature as a profession .
We can say of none of them , “ The man who wrote this will never write any better . ” The publication of Mr. Bryant's little volume of verse was indirectly the cause of his adopting literature as a profession .
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In regard to the exact site of the house in which he was born , Mr. Bryant says , in a statement printed in Parke Godwin's biography of him : “ My father and mother then lived in a house , which stands no longer , near the center of the ...
In regard to the exact site of the house in which he was born , Mr. Bryant says , in a statement printed in Parke Godwin's biography of him : “ My father and mother then lived in a house , which stands no longer , near the center of the ...
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“ In May , ” says Mr. Bryant , writing of this year , “ our family moved again to the distance of about two miles , and occupied a house in Cummington . Not a trace of it now remains . The plow has passed over its site and leveled the ...
“ In May , ” says Mr. Bryant , writing of this year , “ our family moved again to the distance of about two miles , and occupied a house in Cummington . Not a trace of it now remains . The plow has passed over its site and leveled the ...
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