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I. The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature . Every day , the sun ; and , after sunset . night and her stars . Ever the winds blow ; ever the grass grows .
I. The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature . Every day , the sun ; and , after sunset . night and her stars . Ever the winds blow ; ever the grass grows .
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Its beauty is the beauty of his own mind . Its laws are the laws of his own mind . Nature then becomes to him the measure of his attainments . So much of nature as he is ignorant of , so much of his own mind does he not yet possess .
Its beauty is the beauty of his own mind . Its laws are the laws of his own mind . Nature then becomes to him the measure of his attainments . So much of nature as he is ignorant of , so much of his own mind does he not yet possess .
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Every now mind is a new classification . ' If it prove a mind of uncommon activity and power , a Locke , a Lavoisier , a Hutton , a Bentham , a Fourier , it imposcs its classification on other men , and lo ! a new system .
Every now mind is a new classification . ' If it prove a mind of uncommon activity and power , a Locke , a Lavoisier , a Hutton , a Bentham , a Fourier , it imposcs its classification on other men , and lo ! a new system .
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Contents
The Literature of the Colonies and the Revolution | 3 |
WILLIAM BRADFORD 15901657 | 14 |
ANNE BRADSTREET 1612?1672 | 32 |
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| Title | The American Tradition in Literature, Volume 1 The American Tradition in Literature, Sculley Bradley |
| Editor | Sculley Bradley |
| Publisher | Norton, 1957 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 15 Jun 2009 |
| Length | 1575 pages |
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