The Cambridge History of American Literature: Later national literature: pt. IIWilliam Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1921 |
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... Sense Realism . The Evolutionary Philosophy . Its Influence on American Theology . John Fiske . His Substitution of the Evolutionary Myth for the Old Theology . Scientific Thought in America . Chauncey Wright . His Conception of True ...
... Sense Realism . The Evolutionary Philosophy . Its Influence on American Theology . John Fiske . His Substitution of the Evolutionary Myth for the Old Theology . Scientific Thought in America . Chauncey Wright . His Conception of True ...
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... sense of the word yield the largest returns obtainable . To the enterprise of purveying literary entertainment he , first in America , applied the wide- ranging vision and versatile talents of our modern men of action and captains of ...
... sense of the word yield the largest returns obtainable . To the enterprise of purveying literary entertainment he , first in America , applied the wide- ranging vision and versatile talents of our modern men of action and captains of ...
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... sense by acquaintance with a repre- sentative group of Americans on a tremendous picnic with spirits high in rebound from the long depression of the Civil War . One hears in the book the rollicking voice of the ex- pilot , ex - miner ...
... sense by acquaintance with a repre- sentative group of Americans on a tremendous picnic with spirits high in rebound from the long depression of the Civil War . One hears in the book the rollicking voice of the ex- pilot , ex - miner ...
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... sense the preference is justifiable . As literal history , to be sure , or as autobiography , it is untrustworthy . Mark Twain follows his own advice to Rudyard Kipling : " Young man , first get your facts ; then distort them as you ...
... sense the preference is justifiable . As literal history , to be sure , or as autobiography , it is untrustworthy . Mark Twain follows his own advice to Rudyard Kipling : " Young man , first get your facts ; then distort them as you ...
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... sense as his life in that epical calling with its manly rigours , its robust hilarity , its deep , wholesome , unreflective happiness . The spirit that , years before , inspired Emerson's blandly , ex- pressed desire to make Concord and ...
... sense as his life in that epical calling with its manly rigours , its robust hilarity , its deep , wholesome , unreflective happiness . The spirit that , years before , inspired Emerson's blandly , ex- pressed desire to make Concord and ...
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