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Russel Braddock Ward. ' soft ' noble savage , of the South Seas and elsewhere , preceded nineteenth - century interest in the predominantly ' hard ' noble frontiersman . Thus Tacitus extolled , and romanticized , the ' simple ...
Russel Braddock Ward. ' soft ' noble savage , of the South Seas and elsewhere , preceded nineteenth - century interest in the predominantly ' hard ' noble frontiersman . Thus Tacitus extolled , and romanticized , the ' simple ...
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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 savage ...
... 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 savage ...
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... noble savage ' . But in 1845 another writer made the connection even more explicitly than in the above passage . He wrote : The greatest drawback to the life of an Australian settler is the solitude , and the absence of the conveniences ...
... noble savage ' . But in 1845 another writer made the connection even more explicitly than in the above passage . He wrote : The greatest drawback to the life of an Australian settler is the solitude , and the absence of the conveniences ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 14 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 43 |
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