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The fact , that an American publisher can get an English work without money , must for a few years longer ( unless legislative protection shall be extended to their own authors ) ...
The fact , that an American publisher can get an English work without money , must for a few years longer ( unless legislative protection shall be extended to their own authors ) ...
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Particular natural facts are symbols of particular spiritual facts . 3. ... Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact , if traced to its root , is found to be borrowed from some material appearance .
Particular natural facts are symbols of particular spiritual facts . 3. ... Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact , if traced to its root , is found to be borrowed from some material appearance .
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We make fables to hide the baldness of the fact and conform it , as we say , to the higher law of the mind . But when the fact is seen under the light of an idea , the gaudy fable fades and shrivels . We behold the real higher law .
We make fables to hide the baldness of the fact and conform it , as we say , to the higher law of the mind . But when the fact is seen under the light of an idea , the gaudy fable fades and shrivels . We behold the real higher law .
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| Title | American Literature Survey: The American romantics, 1800-1860 Volume 2 of American Literature Survey, Milton R. Stern Viking portable library |
| Editors | Milton R. Stern, Seymour L. Gross |
| Compiled by | Seymour L. Gross |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Viking Press, 1968 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Oct 2007 |
| ISBN | 0670018880, 9780670018888 |
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