American Literature Survey: The American romantics, 1800-1860Milton R. Stern, Seymour L. Gross Viking Press, 1968 - Fiction |
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... observed , that the story was intended most logically to prove : - " That there is no situation in life but has its advantages and pleasures - providing we will but take a joke as we find it : " That , therefore , he that runs races ...
... observed , that the story was intended most logically to prove : - " That there is no situation in life but has its advantages and pleasures - providing we will but take a joke as we find it : " That , therefore , he that runs races ...
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... observed , that it never sleeps , become sublime . Because of this radical correspondence between visible things and human thoughts , savages , who have only what is necessary , converse in figures . As we go back in history , language ...
... observed , that it never sleeps , become sublime . Because of this radical correspondence between visible things and human thoughts , savages , who have only what is necessary , converse in figures . As we go back in history , language ...
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... observation in a single formula . Thus even in physics , the material is degraded before the spiritual . The astronomer ... observed to beget in- variably a doubt of the existence of matter . Turgot said , " He that has never doubted the ...
... observation in a single formula . Thus even in physics , the material is degraded before the spiritual . The astronomer ... observed to beget in- variably a doubt of the existence of matter . Turgot said , " He that has never doubted the ...
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