A Compendium of American Literature, Chronologically Arranged: With Biographical Sketches of the Authors |
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... writing any great work , we were acting a still greater one . We were creating those very subjects upon which the future historian , traveller , essayist , poet , might employ his pen for the delight and instruction of other generations ...
... writing any great work , we were acting a still greater one . We were creating those very subjects upon which the future historian , traveller , essayist , poet , might employ his pen for the delight and instruction of other generations ...
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... writings ; another has been most interested in the cause of Temperance , -both subjects peculiarly American ; and the warmest feelings of my heart , and my own lifelong prin- ciples , have here fully harmonized with my sense of justice ...
... writings ; another has been most interested in the cause of Temperance , -both subjects peculiarly American ; and the warmest feelings of my heart , and my own lifelong prin- ciples , have here fully harmonized with my sense of justice ...
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... writings ; and more than once I thought that I might not inaptly be compared to the simpleton in Hierocles , who , when he had a house for sale , carried about a brick in his pocket as a specimen . But the idea also occurred to me that ...
... writings ; and more than once I thought that I might not inaptly be compared to the simpleton in Hierocles , who , when he had a house for sale , carried about a brick in his pocket as a specimen . But the idea also occurred to me that ...
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... writings ; to let them speak out the deep feelings of their heart . To do this in many cases , I could not , simply as an honest man , but bring into view their anti - slavery opinions and principles as shown in their writings and ...
... writings ; to let them speak out the deep feelings of their heart . To do this in many cases , I could not , simply as an honest man , but bring into view their anti - slavery opinions and principles as shown in their writings and ...
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... writing a fable on the same plan , but accommodated , by omitting some circumstances and inserting others , to my own case . Let Virtue address me : ( 6 Which , dear youth , will you prefer , a life of effeminacy , indolence , and ...
... writing a fable on the same plan , but accommodated , by omitting some circumstances and inserting others , to my own case . Let Virtue address me : ( 6 Which , dear youth , will you prefer , a life of effeminacy , indolence , and ...
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