Writings of Hugh Swinton Legaré, Late Attorney General and Acting Secretary of State of the United States: Consisting of a Diary of Brussels, and Journal of the Rhine : Extracts from His Private and Diplomatic Correspondence : Orations and Speeches : and Contributions to the New-York and Southern Reviews : Prefaced by a Memoir of His Life, Embellished with a Portrait, Band 2Burges & James, 1845 |
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... writers have recently tendered to the advocates of classical literature , and endeavor to shew that if this good . cause is ( quod Deus avertat omen ) destined to be defeated before the enlightened tribunal of public opinion in this ...
... writers have recently tendered to the advocates of classical literature , and endeavor to shew that if this good . cause is ( quod Deus avertat omen ) destined to be defeated before the enlightened tribunal of public opinion in this ...
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... writer as the biographer of Patrick Henry . We beg to be understood ; we mean no personal disrespect to Mr. Wirt , nor would we cast a slur upon the memory of so respectable a person as Dr. Dwight , but we humbly conceive , that in ...
... writer as the biographer of Patrick Henry . We beg to be understood ; we mean no personal disrespect to Mr. Wirt , nor would we cast a slur upon the memory of so respectable a person as Dr. Dwight , but we humbly conceive , that in ...
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... writers be , and shew them what religious , what glorious and magnificent use might be made of poetry both in divine and human things . " - ( Tract : on Education . † ) We have enlarged the more upon this head , because we have ...
... writers be , and shew them what religious , what glorious and magnificent use might be made of poetry both in divine and human things . " - ( Tract : on Education . † ) We have enlarged the more upon this head , because we have ...
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... writer , addressing himself to this very subject , re- marks , that it is this diffusion of knowledge through the press , " and not the height to which individual genius had soared , that forms the grand distinction between ancient and ...
... writer , addressing himself to this very subject , re- marks , that it is this diffusion of knowledge through the press , " and not the height to which individual genius had soared , that forms the grand distinction between ancient and ...
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... writers , instead of understanding their ignorance , according to the distinction of an ingenious admirer of the philosophy of Kant . Be it so . We do , however , for our own part , cheerfully resign these thorny and unprofitable ...
... writers , instead of understanding their ignorance , according to the distinction of an ingenious admirer of the philosophy of Kant . Be it so . We do , however , for our own part , cheerfully resign these thorny and unprofitable ...
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