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... England The Phantom Ship . The Last Days of Theophilus Eaton The Piety of Thomas Shepard John Eliot and the Indian Language JONATHAN EDWARDS Nature and Holiness Sarah Pierrepont . • Sin's Entrance into the World Natural Men are God's ...
... England The Phantom Ship . The Last Days of Theophilus Eaton The Piety of Thomas Shepard John Eliot and the Indian Language JONATHAN EDWARDS Nature and Holiness Sarah Pierrepont . • Sin's Entrance into the World Natural Men are God's ...
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... England 114 115 American Interest in Republican Government WASHINGTON IRVING Wouter Van Twiller Rip Van Winkle The Enchanted Steed JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Hawkeye and his Friends The Ariel and the Alacrity · BRANDER MATTHEWS 119 • 124 ...
... England 114 115 American Interest in Republican Government WASHINGTON IRVING Wouter Van Twiller Rip Van Winkle The Enchanted Steed JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Hawkeye and his Friends The Ariel and the Alacrity · BRANDER MATTHEWS 119 • 124 ...
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... England what it is ; and English prose and English ideals had a powerful influence on the development of prose style ... England's many contributions to civilization , we learned from its earliest source . It was , too , natural to our ...
... England what it is ; and English prose and English ideals had a powerful influence on the development of prose style ... England's many contributions to civilization , we learned from its earliest source . It was , too , natural to our ...
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... England that we long found our readiest literary models . The succession of schools , how- ever , has not been precisely the same in both countries . It has been often remarked that European literary movements have been felt here only a ...
... England that we long found our readiest literary models . The succession of schools , how- ever , has not been precisely the same in both countries . It has been often remarked that European literary movements have been felt here only a ...
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... England that laughed with them and were swayed by them , - a mood rather serious than merry , striving to recover a manly balance of thought and action by contemplating the typical absurdities of foolishness and prejudice . - The ...
... England that laughed with them and were swayed by them , - a mood rather serious than merry , striving to recover a manly balance of thought and action by contemplating the typical absurdities of foolishness and prejudice . - The ...
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American appeared arms army Barnstable beauty blood Boabdil called character Charles Brockden Brown church Cotton Mather Cuzco death earth effect Emerson enemy England English essays expression eyes father feeling G. P. Putnam's Sons give governor hand happy Hawthorne's head heard heart heaven Hester Prynne honor horse human idea imagination Indian intellect Irving land less letters liberty Ligeia literary literature live look mind Mother Rigby mountain nature never night old Castile passed person pipe Poe's political Prescott prose Puritan Rip Van Winkle romance scarecrow Scarlet Letter seemed seen sense side soldier soul Spaniards Specimen Days spirit stand stood story style tell thee things thou thought tion true truth turned voice whole witch woods words Wouter Van Twiller writings
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Página 263 - The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.
Página 113 - Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured, bearing for its motto no such miserable interrogatory as "What is all this worth?
Página 38 - Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy, and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night ; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him. Drive thy business, let not that drive thee; and early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise,
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 263 - On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it — all sought to avert it.
Página 40 - What maintains one Vice, would bring up two Children. "You may think perhaps, that a little Tea, or a little Punch now and then, Diet a little more costly, Clothes a little finer, and a little Entertainment now and then, can be no great Matter; but remember what Poor Richard says, Many a Little makes a Mickle; and farther, Beware of little Expenses; A small Leak will sink a great Ship; and again.
Página 40 - If you would be wealthy, think of saving, as well as of getting. The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her outgoes are greater than her incomes.
Página 192 - The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.
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.