Old Pictures of Life, Volume 2Stone and Kimball, 1894 |
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... natural phenomenon comes with sharply defined borders . The earth- quake at New Madrid , which drew down fifty miles of farms along the bank of our great river , made other hundreds of miles tremble . The convulsion which was so ter ...
... natural phenomenon comes with sharply defined borders . The earth- quake at New Madrid , which drew down fifty miles of farms along the bank of our great river , made other hundreds of miles tremble . The convulsion which was so ter ...
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David Swing. of logic and rhetoric for their own sake . The nature of a spirit , the dimensions of an angel when compared with a needle- point , the origin of things , were themes much better for logical practice than were any of the ...
David Swing. of logic and rhetoric for their own sake . The nature of a spirit , the dimensions of an angel when compared with a needle- point , the origin of things , were themes much better for logical practice than were any of the ...
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... natural the cloud was dispelled . Reason discovers the real . By degrees realism worked its way back to mankind . In the thirteenth century the impossible lives of the saints began to lose their old charm and the sweethearts of Dante ...
... natural the cloud was dispelled . Reason discovers the real . By degrees realism worked its way back to mankind . In the thirteenth century the impossible lives of the saints began to lose their old charm and the sweethearts of Dante ...
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... nature . There was some child to hunt in the grass for each blossom , there was some beautiful girl to chant her love song in the moonbeam . On the farther side of the dark ravine the human race marched down as magicians . They are like ...
... nature . There was some child to hunt in the grass for each blossom , there was some beautiful girl to chant her love song in the moonbeam . On the farther side of the dark ravine the human race marched down as magicians . They are like ...
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... nature . All the arts are the external expression of something in the spirit , and literature , being one of the arts , must also be the external expression of something within . In seeking for the cause of some branches of the fine ...
... nature . All the arts are the external expression of something in the spirit , and literature , being one of the arts , must also be the external expression of something within . In seeking for the cause of some branches of the fine ...
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