North-American Review and Miscellaneous Journal, 12. köideJared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge Wells and Lilly, 1821 Vols. 277-230, no. 2 include Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... character requires . We think it most indecent , with that partial insight into things , which is caught in the post ... characters , which are 2 [ Jan. The English Universities .
... character requires . We think it most indecent , with that partial insight into things , which is caught in the post ... characters , which are 2 [ Jan. The English Universities .
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... character of this important class of the community , thus to bring its members , from a score of family factions , together ; to unite them , at least for a year or two , as members of one fraternity , before they plunge into the ...
... character of this important class of the community , thus to bring its members , from a score of family factions , together ; to unite them , at least for a year or two , as members of one fraternity , before they plunge into the ...
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... character , instead of becoming the unrescued prey of Huns and Vandals , and whatever un- couth name of barbarism laid waste of old the refinements of the world , will be preserved , upheld , and perfected in the wes- tern world of ...
... character , instead of becoming the unrescued prey of Huns and Vandals , and whatever un- couth name of barbarism laid waste of old the refinements of the world , will be preserved , upheld , and perfected in the wes- tern world of ...
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... character to our readers , and referring them to the lectures themselves . The general subject is poetry , and this surveyed under a fourfold divis- ion of topics , viz . imitation , the passions , the imagination , and the judgment ...
... character to our readers , and referring them to the lectures themselves . The general subject is poetry , and this surveyed under a fourfold divis- ion of topics , viz . imitation , the passions , the imagination , and the judgment ...
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... character of the inhabitants , by passing through one of its obscurest corners , and perhaps passing a day at one of its meanest inns . But from sources scarcely more respectable , it has been our misfortune hitherto to derive the most ...
... character of the inhabitants , by passing through one of its obscurest corners , and perhaps passing a day at one of its meanest inns . But from sources scarcely more respectable , it has been our misfortune hitherto to derive the most ...
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