American Prose: SelectionsMacmillan, 1898 - 465 páginas |
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... present extracts of considerable length from the works of each of the chief American prose - writers , preceded by a critical essay and a brief biographical sketch . Authors now living- great as has been the temptation are not included ...
... present extracts of considerable length from the works of each of the chief American prose - writers , preceded by a critical essay and a brief biographical sketch . Authors now living- great as has been the temptation are not included ...
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... present traits that distinguish them from their brethren across the sea , and we cannot imagine Franklin as the native of any land but our own . Certainly , from the end of the colonial period for- ward , the character of our literature ...
... present traits that distinguish them from their brethren across the sea , and we cannot imagine Franklin as the native of any land but our own . Certainly , from the end of the colonial period for- ward , the character of our literature ...
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... present , with what has been done and is to be done . Prose is therefore our characteristic language , - the language of debate and discussion and explanation , of the statesman , the preacher , the historian , the critic , the novelist ...
... present , with what has been done and is to be done . Prose is therefore our characteristic language , - the language of debate and discussion and explanation , of the statesman , the preacher , the historian , the critic , the novelist ...
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... present all its material in an ideal aspect ; its purpose is not so much to tell the truth and shame the devil as to shame him by pointing out what truth ought to be . As a record of fact , then , the Magnalia is untrustworthy ; as a ...
... present all its material in an ideal aspect ; its purpose is not so much to tell the truth and shame the devil as to shame him by pointing out what truth ought to be . As a record of fact , then , the Magnalia is untrustworthy ; as a ...
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... present lies thiefly in the fact that he was a New Englander who made the world aware of the New England mind . That he should have been a theologian was natural ; so was Cotton Mather , chiefly , who had performed a somewhat similar ...
... present lies thiefly in the fact that he was a New Englander who made the world aware of the New England mind . That he should have been a theologian was natural ; so was Cotton Mather , chiefly , who had performed a somewhat similar ...
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Página 80 - Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions to cause others to be elected ; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise ; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Página 194 - The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.
Página 261 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it.
Página 106 - Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.
Página 36 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Página 39 - And again, Three removes are as bad as a fire ; and again, Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee ; and again, If you would have your business done, go ; if not, send. And again — He that by the plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive.
Página 113 - I have not allowed myself, Sir, to look beyond the Union, to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed myself to hang over...
Página 133 - He recalled the occurrences before he fell asleep. The strange man with a keg of liquor — the mountain ravine — the wild retreat among the rocks — the woe-begone party at nine-pins — the flagon — " Oh ! that flagon ! that wicked flagon ! " thought Rip — " what excuse shall I make to Dame Van Winkle?
Página 39 - A little neglect may breed great mischief ; for want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail.
Página 82 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them...