American Quarterly Review, Volume 21Carey, Lea & Carey, 1837 - Serial publications |
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... feelings untouched , and their heads as really vacant as before - for the superficial information these works may impart is worse than entire ignorance upon such subjects . There must be system-- a commencement from the foundation - in ...
... feelings untouched , and their heads as really vacant as before - for the superficial information these works may impart is worse than entire ignorance upon such subjects . There must be system-- a commencement from the foundation - in ...
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... feelings , and governed by such motives , even worldly advantages - if these should enter the mind of him we have described - would , in the end , be surely at- tained . Honest industry , strict integrity , and Christian charity , would ...
... feelings , and governed by such motives , even worldly advantages - if these should enter the mind of him we have described - would , in the end , be surely at- tained . Honest industry , strict integrity , and Christian charity , would ...
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... feeling . The contrasts are equally well sketched . The vanity of mere riches in the hands of an unworthy possessor ; the real poverty which is the lot of such an one in the midst of his gold ; the want of refinement - of gratitude - of ...
... feeling . The contrasts are equally well sketched . The vanity of mere riches in the hands of an unworthy possessor ; the real poverty which is the lot of such an one in the midst of his gold ; the want of refinement - of gratitude - of ...
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... feeling , though you can't express it . ' " Charlotte was right . It is a great comfort and happiness to have the feeling , and happy would it be if those who live in the country were more sensible to the beauties of nature ; if they ...
... feeling , though you can't express it . ' " Charlotte was right . It is a great comfort and happiness to have the feeling , and happy would it be if those who live in the country were more sensible to the beauties of nature ; if they ...
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... feelings . Romance throws her spell around us , and , while she perverts our vision , offers novel and brilliant sights to gaze at - the melody of the sounding line lends its enchantment to another sense ; and while thus the reader is ...
... feelings . Romance throws her spell around us , and , while she perverts our vision , offers novel and brilliant sights to gaze at - the melody of the sounding line lends its enchantment to another sense ; and while thus the reader is ...
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