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It is a great number of people on pilgrimage , common and ordinary people , charged with the usual human failings , yet filled with such a hope as never caught the imaginations and the hearts of any nation on earth before .
It is a great number of people on pilgrimage , common and ordinary people , charged with the usual human failings , yet filled with such a hope as never caught the imaginations and the hearts of any nation on earth before .
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MARK TWAIN , Life on the Mississippi , 1875–1883 There seemed to be one small hope , however : if we could get through the intricate and dangerous Hat Island crossing before night , we could venture the rest for we would have plainer ...
MARK TWAIN , Life on the Mississippi , 1875–1883 There seemed to be one small hope , however : if we could get through the intricate and dangerous Hat Island crossing before night , we could venture the rest for we would have plainer ...
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SERGEANT JOE MCCARTHY , Yank Up to last Monday I must confess that I did not have much hope for a world state . I have believed that no moral basis for it existed and that we had no world conscience and no sense of world community ...
SERGEANT JOE MCCARTHY , Yank Up to last Monday I must confess that I did not have much hope for a world state . I have believed that no moral basis for it existed and that we had no world conscience and no sense of world community ...
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Contents
Introduction | 2 |
of Americans | 9 |
a Look at the Country | 65 |
Copyright | |
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American ANON asked beautiful become believe body called civilization comes common Constitution dead death earth equal experience eyes face fact father fear feel force freedom GEORGE give ground hand head hear heart HENRY hope human Ibid idea interest JAMES JOHN keep kind land leave less letter liberty light LINCOLN lines live look March MARK matter means mind nature never night once passed peace person play political race reason remember seemed sense side society soul speak speech spirit stand talk tell things thought tion tree true truth turn United universe whole write York young
Bibliographic information
| Title | The American Treasury, 1455-1955 |
| Editor | Clifton Fadiman |
| Compiled by | Clifton Fadiman |
| Publisher | Harper, 1955 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 11 Dec 2006 |
| Length | 1108 pages |
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