Harper's Magazine, Volume 142Henry Mills Alden, Thomas Bucklin Wells, Lee Foster Hartman, Frederick Lewis Allen Harper & Brothers, 1920 - American literature |
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... true , but what seems to be true is that America scraps her past as she goes . She is like a soldier on the march who throws aside impedimenta so as to get quicker to his goal . And that is why I venture to head this paragraph with the ...
... true , but what seems to be true is that America scraps her past as she goes . She is like a soldier on the march who throws aside impedimenta so as to get quicker to his goal . And that is why I venture to head this paragraph with the ...
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... true be- liever , and Larrimer could not resist a disciple , however unpromising . He ad- mitted with a grin that Terry was un- promising . But he liked Terry , and it was soothing to spring on him facers which he had omitted to spring ...
... true be- liever , and Larrimer could not resist a disciple , however unpromising . He ad- mitted with a grin that Terry was un- promising . But he liked Terry , and it was soothing to spring on him facers which he had omitted to spring ...
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... true qual- ity of human " progress , " the absolute stage of our human faring . War , too , is revelation . All the elabo- rate reredos of human imaginings and self - delusions and self - conceits knocked flat ; all the pretenses and ...
... true qual- ity of human " progress , " the absolute stage of our human faring . War , too , is revelation . All the elabo- rate reredos of human imaginings and self - delusions and self - conceits knocked flat ; all the pretenses and ...
Page 36
... true . Sentry posts had been doubled in anticipation of a Ger- man trick or surprise . Somewhere in the trenches a staff officer with special instructions lurked . Rumor said that the French objected to " incidents , " deeming them ...
... true . Sentry posts had been doubled in anticipation of a Ger- man trick or surprise . Somewhere in the trenches a staff officer with special instructions lurked . Rumor said that the French objected to " incidents , " deeming them ...
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... true knight , a glimpse of the veritable Grail . All the following day I spent on board , overseeing the hundred minor patchings and calkings a South Sea trader will want in port . When I went ashore that evening , after sundown , I ...
... true knight , a glimpse of the veritable Grail . All the following day I spent on board , overseeing the hundred minor patchings and calkings a South Sea trader will want in port . When I went ashore that evening , after sundown , I ...
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