Emerson at Home and AbroadTrübner & Company, 1883 - 309 psl. |
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... very thorough manner , with a wealth of illustra - tion , a clearness of style , and a cogency of reasoning , which make up a most attractive volume . " - Nature . VOL . XI . ] Post 8vo , pp . THE ENGLISH AND FOREIGN PHILOSOPHICAL LIBRARY .
... very thorough manner , with a wealth of illustra - tion , a clearness of style , and a cogency of reasoning , which make up a most attractive volume . " - Nature . VOL . XI . ] Post 8vo , pp . THE ENGLISH AND FOREIGN PHILOSOPHICAL LIBRARY .
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... tion , yet eloquent by its very sincerity . It is not a page too long ; and though the reader closes it with regret , the critic must own that it is not a page too short . " - Standard . " He has given a life of Lessing clear ...
... tion , yet eloquent by its very sincerity . It is not a page too long ; and though the reader closes it with regret , the critic must own that it is not a page too short . " - Standard . " He has given a life of Lessing clear ...
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... tion defies any analysis I can make of its words . know is that it was the touch of flame I needed . day my gun was laid aside to be resumed no more . how crude I was ! The nearest mould into which my new life could run was a Methodist ...
... tion defies any analysis I can make of its words . know is that it was the touch of flame I needed . day my gun was laid aside to be resumed no more . how crude I was ! The nearest mould into which my new life could run was a Methodist ...
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... tion were repaid by its excitements . I seem to see them with their pious pastor addressing themselves to the work of clearing the land . Natives of another hemisphere , they beheld with curiosity all the pleasing features of the ...
... tion were repaid by its excitements . I seem to see them with their pious pastor addressing themselves to the work of clearing the land . Natives of another hemisphere , they beheld with curiosity all the pleasing features of the ...
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... tion began . It is pleasant enough to believe that the vigorous English stock which had given intellectual and moral leaders to seven New England towns , and to several their founders , was meanwhile represented in the mother country by ...
... tion began . It is pleasant enough to believe that the vigorous English stock which had given intellectual and moral leaders to seven New England towns , and to several their founders , was meanwhile represented in the mother country by ...
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