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... American and German Schools , John T. Prince American Definition of Gothic Architecture , An American Highwayman , An , Robert H. Fuller American Literature , Stedman's Library of Americans at Home 413 Inferno , The Fourth Canto of the ...
... American and German Schools , John T. Prince American Definition of Gothic Architecture , An American Highwayman , An , Robert H. Fuller American Literature , Stedman's Library of Americans at Home 413 Inferno , The Fourth Canto of the ...
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... American Colleges , The , Albert Bushnell Hart Stedman's Library of American Literature Successful Highwayman of the Middle Ages , A , Francis C. Lowell Swiss History . See Altdorf and the Landesge meinde of Uri ; and Legend of William ...
... American Colleges , The , Albert Bushnell Hart Stedman's Library of American Literature Successful Highwayman of the Middle Ages , A , Francis C. Lowell Swiss History . See Altdorf and the Landesge meinde of Uri ; and Legend of William ...
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... American nationality was at hand . At this point the question arose as to who should move the declaration . All circumstances pointed to Richard Henry Lee . To the Congress it seemed fitting that Virginia , hitherto the foremost col ...
... American nationality was at hand . At this point the question arose as to who should move the declaration . All circumstances pointed to Richard Henry Lee . To the Congress it seemed fitting that Virginia , hitherto the foremost col ...
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... America will be much studied . Considered from a scientific point of view , the African in America affords the most remarkable experiment ever ... American and German, John T Prince Science and the African Problem, Nathaniel Southgate Shaler.
... America will be much studied . Considered from a scientific point of view , the African in America affords the most remarkable experiment ever ... American and German, John T Prince Science and the African Problem, Nathaniel Southgate Shaler.
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... America are small compared with that which the negro problem pre- sents . It has been the lot of the United States to ... American who wishes to do his duty by the difficulties of his time . At present we are doing little or noth- ing ...
... America are small compared with that which the negro problem pre- sents . It has been the lot of the United States to ... American who wishes to do his duty by the difficulties of his time . At present we are doing little or noth- ing ...
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Page 673 - The Constitution vests the whole judicial power of the United States in one supreme court and such inferior courts as Congress shall, from time to time, ordain and establish.
Page 27 - Memorial to the House of Lords, and a Remonstrance to the House of Commons, on the subject of the proposed Stamp Act.
Page 138 - Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
Page 663 - Fair youth beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare. Bold lover, never — never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal ; yet do not grieve, She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair.
Page 213 - Bookes to it, the gifts of diverse of our friends, their Chambers and studies also fitted for, and possessed by the Students, and all other roomes of Office necessary and convenient, with all needfull Offices thereto belonging...
Page 663 - Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone: Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss Though winning near the goal — yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
Page 669 - And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend.
Page 512 - I know you young men are all in love with Mrs. Arnold, and wish to get where she is as soon as possible. You may go and take your breakfast with her, and tell her not to wait for me; for I must ride down and examine the redoubts on this side of the river, and will be there in a short time.
Page 390 - ... poetry" in which the reader must make the rhythms which the poet has not made for him, then I think we had better continue literary colonists. I shrink from a lawless independence to which all the virile energy and trampling audacity of Mr. Whitman fail to reconcile me. But there is room for everybody and everything in our huge hemisphere. Young America is like a three-year-old colt with his saddle and bridle just taken off. The first thing he wants to do is to roll. He is a droll object, sprawling...
Page 388 - A world primal again, vistas of glory incessant and branching, A new race dominating previous ones and grander far, with new contests, New politics, new literatures and religions, new inventions and arts.