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... mean , of course , that Cooper's " Leatherstocking " is all this or any- thing like it , but that the character typified in him is ideally and potentially all this and more . But whatever was poetical in the lives of the early New ...
... mean , of course , that Cooper's " Leatherstocking " is all this or any- thing like it , but that the character typified in him is ideally and potentially all this and more . But whatever was poetical in the lives of the early New ...
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... means of a religious revival . The fulcrum on which they rested their lever to overturn the existing order of things ( as history always placidly calls the par- ticular forms of disorder for the time being ) was TWO CENTURIES AGO 9.
... means of a religious revival . The fulcrum on which they rested their lever to overturn the existing order of things ( as history always placidly calls the par- ticular forms of disorder for the time being ) was TWO CENTURIES AGO 9.
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... means of comparison and correction . They knew that liberty in the hands of feeble - minded and unrea- soning persons ( and all the worse if they are honest ) means nothing more than the supremacy of their particular form of imbecility ; ...
... means of comparison and correction . They knew that liberty in the hands of feeble - minded and unrea- soning persons ( and all the worse if they are honest ) means nothing more than the supremacy of their particular form of imbecility ; ...
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... mean- ing was lest it should have been apprehended he had prepared & appointed him for such a place , the burthen whereof I have several times heard him complaining under since his coming to the Government , the weighty occasions ...
... mean- ing was lest it should have been apprehended he had prepared & appointed him for such a place , the burthen whereof I have several times heard him complaining under since his coming to the Government , the weighty occasions ...
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... Means runneth out & wages on & I cannot make choice of my help . " It may be some consolation to know that the complaint of a decline in the quality of servants is no modern thing . Shakespeare makes Or- lando say to Adam : - " O , good ...
... Means runneth out & wages on & I cannot make choice of my help . " It may be some consolation to know that the complaint of a decline in the quality of servants is no modern thing . Shakespeare makes Or- lando say to Adam : - " O , good ...
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Страница 161 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Страница 255 - O ! wonder ! How many goodly creatures are there here ! How beauteous mankind is ! O brave new world, That has such people in't ! Pro. Tis new to thee.
Страница 143 - The Shepherd in Virgil, grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. 'Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?
Страница 19 - It is therefore ordered, That every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Страница 19 - ... to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers in church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors.
Страница 279 - Lifting himself out of the lowly dust On golden plumes up to the purest skie...
Страница 299 - And is there care in Heaven ? and is there love In heavenly spirits to these creatures base, That may compassion of their evils move ? There is...
Страница 308 - Another Damzell, as a precious gemme Amidst a ring most richly well enchaced, That with her goodly presence all the rest much graced.
Страница 263 - That same framing of his style to an old rustic language I dare not allow, since neither Theocritus in Greek, Virgil in Latin, nor Sannazzaro in Italian did affect it.
Страница 320 - There is something in Spenser that pleases one as strongly in old age as it did in one's youth. I read the Faerie Queene, when I was about twelve, with infinite delight; and I think it gave me as much, when I read it over about a year or two ago."— Spence's Anecdotes.