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His face was all overspread with a most sickly and sallow hue , but yet so pervaded with an expression of piercing and active intellect that an observer might casily have overlooked the merely physical attributes and have seen only this ...
His face was all overspread with a most sickly and sallow hue , but yet so pervaded with an expression of piercing and active intellect that an observer might casily have overlooked the merely physical attributes and have seen only this ...
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Seen from a lower point of view , the Constitution , with all its faults , is very good ; the law and the courts are very respectable ; even this State and this American government are , in many respects , very admirable , and rare ...
Seen from a lower point of view , the Constitution , with all its faults , is very good ; the law and the courts are very respectable ; even this State and this American government are , in many respects , very admirable , and rare ...
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here now a whole fortnight , and if I could tell ye one half I've seen , I guess vou'd stare worse than if vou'd seen a catamount . I've been to meeting , and to the museum , and to both Legislaters , the one they call the house ...
here now a whole fortnight , and if I could tell ye one half I've seen , I guess vou'd stare worse than if vou'd seen a catamount . I've been to meeting , and to the museum , and to both Legislaters , the one they call the house ...
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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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