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... its value , is so common among us , even with those whose passion is the study of the literatures of other lands , that it is hoped that this volume may open the eyes of many to its interest and beauty . English literature V.
... its value , is so common among us , even with those whose passion is the study of the literatures of other lands , that it is hoped that this volume may open the eyes of many to its interest and beauty . English literature V.
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... common language , we did not spring from a single race , but are rather formed , and are still being formed , from many races , each contributing its quota of men who chose voluntarily to live and act under given responsibili- ties ...
... common language , we did not spring from a single race , but are rather formed , and are still being formed , from many races , each contributing its quota of men who chose voluntarily to live and act under given responsibili- ties ...
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... common tongue in American and in British literature is rarely a difference of idiom , and can usually be traced to a characteristic habit of Ameri- can speech and writing , which lies at the basis both of the ubiqui- tous and ...
... common tongue in American and in British literature is rarely a difference of idiom , and can usually be traced to a characteristic habit of Ameri- can speech and writing , which lies at the basis both of the ubiqui- tous and ...
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... common interest and welfare . This strong tendency to what may be called citizen's literature has told somewhat against the more æsthetic qualities of style . We have had few " stylists , ” men who stake all on the turn of a phrase , on ...
... common interest and welfare . This strong tendency to what may be called citizen's literature has told somewhat against the more æsthetic qualities of style . We have had few " stylists , ” men who stake all on the turn of a phrase , on ...
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... common sense , a quality of which Edwards had not very much , his keenest sense being rather un- common . But it was not his common sense , but the cause of his common sense , namely , his faculty of realization , that made Frank- lin ...
... common sense , a quality of which Edwards had not very much , his keenest sense being rather un- common . But it was not his common sense , but the cause of his common sense , namely , his faculty of realization , that made Frank- lin ...
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Seite 263 - The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.
Seite 113 - Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured, bearing for its motto no such miserable interrogatory as "What is all this worth?
Seite 38 - Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy, and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night ; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him. Drive thy business, let not that drive thee; and early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise,
Seite 80 - Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions to cause others to be elected ; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise ; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Seite 263 - On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it — all sought to avert it.
Seite 40 - What maintains one Vice, would bring up two Children. "You may think perhaps, that a little Tea, or a little Punch now and then, Diet a little more costly, Clothes a little finer, and a little Entertainment now and then, can be no great Matter; but remember what Poor Richard says, Many a Little makes a Mickle; and farther, Beware of little Expenses; A small Leak will sink a great Ship; and again.
Seite 40 - If you would be wealthy, think of saving, as well as of getting. The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her outgoes are greater than her incomes.
Seite 192 - The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.
Seite 106 - Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.
Seite 36 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.