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... imagination from communion with his dream - like ideals . Such opportunities the American social system rarely furnishes . Our thoughts have been of necessity immediately concerned with the present , with what has been done and is to be ...
... imagination from communion with his dream - like ideals . Such opportunities the American social system rarely furnishes . Our thoughts have been of necessity immediately concerned with the present , with what has been done and is to be ...
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... imagining what has been . Nor is it especially profitable to examine the technical means by which he succeeded in the great aim of literature . Edwards is an ex- ample of the power of unrhetorical rhetoric . His most marked rhetorical ...
... imagining what has been . Nor is it especially profitable to examine the technical means by which he succeeded in the great aim of literature . Edwards is an ex- ample of the power of unrhetorical rhetoric . His most marked rhetorical ...
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... imaginations , of being alone in the mountains , or some solitary wilderness , far from all mankind , sweetly conversing with Christ , and rapt and swallowed up in God . The sense I had of divine things would often of a sudden kindle up ...
... imaginations , of being alone in the mountains , or some solitary wilderness , far from all mankind , sweetly conversing with Christ , and rapt and swallowed up in God . The sense I had of divine things would often of a sudden kindle up ...
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... imaginative work was done in early life , before the age of thirty and before his powers became mature . Yet with all his drawbacks he had achieved his end , and had laid the foundation for American fiction . With all his inflation of ...
... imaginative work was done in early life , before the age of thirty and before his powers became mature . Yet with all his drawbacks he had achieved his end , and had laid the foundation for American fiction . With all his inflation of ...
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... imagination had . leisure to torment itself by anticipations . One foot of the savage was slowly and cautiously moved after the other . He struck his claws so deeply into the bark that they were with CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN 91.
... imagination had . leisure to torment itself by anticipations . One foot of the savage was slowly and cautiously moved after the other . He struck his claws so deeply into the bark that they were with CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN 91.
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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.