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Intimacy In America: Dreams Of Affiliation In Antebellum Literature - Page 32
by Peter Coviello - 229 pages
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Four Great Americans: Washington, Franklin, Webster, Lincoln, a Book for ...

James Baldwin - United States - 1897 - 268 pages
...in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, tried to complete the papers again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at length and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should occur to me. " Then I compared my Spectator with...
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The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from ..., Volume 15

Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 578 pages
...more attentive to the manner in writing, and determined to endeavor at improvement. by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, try'd to compleat...hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand. Then I compared my Spectator with...
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The True Benjamin Franklin

Sydney George Fisher - Statesmen - 1898 - 440 pages
...of the papers, and, making short hints of the sentiment in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, try'd to compleat...hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand. Then I compared my Spectator with...
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Studies in American Literature: A Text-book for Academies and High Schools

Charles Noble - American literature - 1898 - 460 pages
...some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiment in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, try'd to compleat...hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand. Then I compared my Spectator with...
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The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature ...: A Biographical ..., Volume 10

John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 556 pages
...each sentence, laid them by for a few days, and then, without looking at the book, tried to complete the papers again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should occur to me. Then I compared my Spectator with...
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Selections from Autobiography: Poor Richard's Almanac, Advice to a Young ...

Benjamin Franklin - 1899 - 204 pages
...of the papers, and, making short hints of the sentiment in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, try'd to compleat...hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand. Then I compared my Spectator with...
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The Century: 1899, Volume 58

1899 - 1010 pages
...of the papers, and, making short hints of the sentiment in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, try'd to compleat...hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand. Then I compared my Sftfctator with...
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The Many-Sided Franklin

Paul Leicester Ford - Literary Criticism - 1899 - 554 pages
...of the papers, and, making short hints of the sentiment in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, try'd to compleat...hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand. Then I compared my Spectator with...
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The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature: A Biographical and ...

John Clark Ridpath - Anthologies - 1899 - 526 pages
...each sentence, laid them by for a few days, and then, without looking at the book, tried to complete the papers again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should occur to me. Then I compared my Spectator with...
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A Literary History of America

Barrett Wendell - American literature - 1900 - 598 pages
...of the papers, and, making short hints of the sentiment in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, try'd to compleat...hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand. Then I compared my ' Spectator '...
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