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... seems as established and as important as any in the world . Clearly these three centuries of American history are at least as distinct as three generations in any race . Typical American . Again , the typical American character of the ...
... seems as established and as important as any in the world . Clearly these three centuries of American history are at least as distinct as three generations in any race . Typical American . Again , the typical American character of the ...
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... seems ; and rightly , for never in the course of Eng- lish history have native Englishmen so striven to alter the form and the course of constitutional development . In such a study as ours it has both aspects ; the dominance of ...
... seems ; and rightly , for never in the course of Eng- lish history have native Englishmen so striven to alter the form and the course of constitutional development . In such a study as ours it has both aspects ; the dominance of ...
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... seems fairly sure , —no good Puritan questioned the truth of Calvinism . To un- derstand Puritanism , in England and in America alike , we must therefore remind ourselves of what Calvinistic theology taught . In the beginning , the ...
... seems fairly sure , —no good Puritan questioned the truth of Calvinism . To un- derstand Puritanism , in England and in America alike , we must therefore remind ourselves of what Calvinistic theology taught . In the beginning , the ...
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... seems theoretically better than the older system which had grown under the unwritten Common Law , and which since ... seem to concern men of a remote past . Take , for example , the adventurer , Ralegh ; the soldier and courtier , Essex ...
... seems theoretically better than the older system which had grown under the unwritten Common Law , and which since ... seem to concern men of a remote past . Take , for example , the adventurer , Ralegh ; the soldier and courtier , Essex ...
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... William III was to Queen Temper . Elizabeth's . Like Elizabethan England , Elizabethan literature seems different from anything which we can National now know in the flesh . One can hardly imagine English Literature - 1600 to 1700 21.
... William III was to Queen Temper . Elizabeth's . Like Elizabethan England , Elizabethan literature seems different from anything which we can National now know in the flesh . One can hardly imagine English Literature - 1600 to 1700 21.
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Page 163 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 374 - A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child ? I do not know what it is any more than he. I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven.
Page 162 - Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days ! None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise.
Page 292 - The house-dog on his paws outspread Laid to the fire his drowsy head, The cat's dark silhouette on the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons...
Page 264 - Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
Page 38 - You sinners are, and such a share As sinners may expect, Such you shall have; for I do save None but mine own elect. Yet to compare your sin with their, Who lived a longer time, I do confess yours is much less, Though every sin's a crime.
Page 39 - When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then the earth, though old, still clad in green, The stones and trees insensible of time, Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen; If winter come, and greenness then do fade, A spring returns, and they more youthful made. But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.
Page 295 - Save power remains; A fallen angel's pride of thought, Still strong in chains. All else is gone; from those great eyes The soul has fled: When faith is lost, when honor dies, The man is dead!
Page 166 - The south wind searches for the flowers whose fragrance late he bore, And sighs to find them in the wood and by the stream no more. And then I think of one who in her youthful beauty died, The fair meek blossom that grew up and faded by my side : In the cold moist earth we laid her, when the forest cast the leaf, And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief : Yet not unmeet it was that one, like that young friend of ours, So gentle and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers.
Page 374 - Or I guess it is a uniform hieroglyphic, And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white, Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the same, I receive them the same. And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves.