Lectures on American Literature: With Remarks on Some Passages of American HistoryElam Bliss, 1829 - 300 sidor |
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... knew , or had heard , that the white man could do ; but he never sat down seriously to reflect on the subject , until a swelling on his knee confined him to his cabin , and which at length made him a cripple for life , by shortening the ...
... knew , or had heard , that the white man could do ; but he never sat down seriously to reflect on the subject , until a swelling on his knee confined him to his cabin , and which at length made him a cripple for life , by shortening the ...
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... knew nothing of the Arabick digits , nor of the power of Roman letters in the science . The Cherokees had mental numerals to one hundred , and had words for all numbers up to that ; but they had no signs or characters to assist them in ...
... knew nothing of the Arabick digits , nor of the power of Roman letters in the science . The Cherokees had mental numerals to one hundred , and had words for all numbers up to that ; but they had no signs or characters to assist them in ...
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... knew but little of their origin . The literature of Spain and Italy was the same in a new form , gaining something at times , but losing much of its ethereal fire in every new transformation . The Gauls and Britains at length came in ...
... knew but little of their origin . The literature of Spain and Italy was the same in a new form , gaining something at times , but losing much of its ethereal fire in every new transformation . The Gauls and Britains at length came in ...
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... knew something of the classicks . This gen- tleman kept a most minute and faithful journal of events ; but they were not all published , and most of them have been lost . Some few scraps have been found , which are now in the ...
... knew something of the classicks . This gen- tleman kept a most minute and faithful journal of events ; but they were not all published , and most of them have been lost . Some few scraps have been found , which are now in the ...
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... knew from history , how much their sex had done in the advancement of civilization and christianity ; and here was the finest field to prove that they still had the power and inclination . Naturally generous and enthusiastick , women ...
... knew from history , how much their sex had done in the advancement of civilization and christianity ; and here was the finest field to prove that they still had the power and inclination . Naturally generous and enthusiastick , women ...
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Lectures on American Literature, with remarks on some passages of American ... Samuel Lorenzo Knapp Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1829 |
Lectures on American Literature: With Remarks on Some Passages of American ... Samuel Lorenzo Knapp Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1829 |
Lectures on American Literature: With Remarks on Some Passages of American ... Samuel Lorenzo Knapp Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1829 |
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Sida 20 - To fair Fidele's grassy tomb Soft maids and village hinds shall bring Each opening sweet of earliest bloom, And rifle all the breathing spring. No wailing ghost shall dare appear To vex with shrieks this quiet grove: But shepherd lads assemble here, And melting virgins own their love. No...
Sida 65 - Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Sida 210 - And the Lord said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth ? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I, the Lord? Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.
Sida 18 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Sida 65 - In happy climes, where from the genial sun And virgin earth such scenes ensue, The force of Art by Nature seems outdone, And fancied beauties by the true...
Sida 21 - Different minds Incline to different objects : one pursues The vast alone, the wonderful, the wild ; Another sighs for harmony, and grace, And gentlest beauty. Hence when lightning fires The arch of Heaven, and thunders rock the ground, When furious whirlwinds rend the howling air, And Ocean, groaning from...
Sida 18 - To overcome in battle, and subdue Nations, and bring home spoils, with infinite Manslaughter, shall be held the highest pitch Of human glory...
Sida 2 - District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the tenth day of August, AD 1829, in the fifty-fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America, JP Dabney, of the said district, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit...
Sida 210 - And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people : and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God.
Sida 224 - List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music: Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter...
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