The North American Review, Том 83Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1856 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... mean- ing and force were of limitless and permanent influence . When a new Life of Washington was announced as forth- coming from the graceful and endeared pen of Irving , we imagined that our literary pioneer was induced to give the ...
... mean- ing and force were of limitless and permanent influence . When a new Life of Washington was announced as forth- coming from the graceful and endeared pen of Irving , we imagined that our literary pioneer was induced to give the ...
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... mean to assert that the work is fault- less . Errors have already been discovered , and , in some in- stances , corrected ; we could point out an infelicitous expres- sion , perhaps , here and there , and suggest cases of the super ...
... mean to assert that the work is fault- less . Errors have already been discovered , and , in some in- stances , corrected ; we could point out an infelicitous expres- sion , perhaps , here and there , and suggest cases of the super ...
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... mean to express the highest praise of which such a task is susceptible . A poet of our country once conceived a drama based on the fate of André ; and , after striving to embody Washington in the piece in a manner coincident with his ...
... mean to express the highest praise of which such a task is susceptible . A poet of our country once conceived a drama based on the fate of André ; and , after striving to embody Washington in the piece in a manner coincident with his ...
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... econom- ics . By means of them he read character with extraordinary success . They led him to methodize his life and labors , to - - - plan with wisdom and execute with judgment , to use 1856. ] 23 THE CHARACTER OF WASHINGTON .
... econom- ics . By means of them he read character with extraordinary success . They led him to methodize his life and labors , to - - - plan with wisdom and execute with judgment , to use 1856. ] 23 THE CHARACTER OF WASHINGTON .
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... means and his disinterested view of the ends of the momentous struggle , in the humility of spirit with which he assumed the reins of government when called to do so by the popular suf- frage , in his uniform deference to the authority ...
... means and his disinterested view of the ends of the momentous struggle , in the humility of spirit with which he assumed the reins of government when called to do so by the popular suf- frage , in his uniform deference to the authority ...
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