American Life in Literature, Volume 1Jay Broadus Hubbell Harper & brothers, 1936 - 849 pages |
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Page 61
... sense of my own wickedness , and the bad- ness of my own heart , than ever I had before my conversion . It has often appeared to me , that if God should mark iniquity against me , I should appear the very worst of all minkind ; of all ...
... sense of my own wickedness , and the bad- ness of my own heart , than ever I had before my conversion . It has often appeared to me , that if God should mark iniquity against me , I should appear the very worst of all minkind ; of all ...
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... sense for conduct and business is much more strongly developed than the sense for beauty . If we in England were without the cathedrals , parish churches , and castles of the catholic and feudal age , and without the houses of the ...
... sense for conduct and business is much more strongly developed than the sense for beauty . If we in England were without the cathedrals , parish churches , and castles of the catholic and feudal age , and without the houses of the ...
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... sense , which we may call nearly indispensable to any one who would continue to be a poet be- yond his twenty - fifth year ; and the his- torical sense involves a perception , not only of the pastness of the past , but of its pres- ence ...
... sense , which we may call nearly indispensable to any one who would continue to be a poet be- yond his twenty - fifth year ; and the his- torical sense involves a perception , not only of the pastness of the past , but of its pres- ence ...
Contents
The Settlement of Virginia | 4 |
The SmithPocahontas Legend | 10 |
FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS 17931835 | 24 |
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