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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... periods beginning much earlier than the Later National Period to which the volumes are specifically devoted . They are placed here partly because it has been found convenient to hold them till the last , inasmuch as they deal with large ...
... periods beginning much earlier than the Later National Period to which the volumes are specifically devoted . They are placed here partly because it has been found convenient to hold them till the last , inasmuch as they deal with large ...
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... Period . Henry Charles Lea . Hubert Howe Bancroft . Alfred Thayer Mahan . Charles Francis Adams . Henry Adams . Mont Saint Michel and Chartres . The Education of Henry Adams . CHAPTER XVI LATER THEOLOGY By AMBROSE WHITE VERNON , A.M. ...
... Period . Henry Charles Lea . Hubert Howe Bancroft . Alfred Thayer Mahan . Charles Francis Adams . Henry Adams . Mont Saint Michel and Chartres . The Education of Henry Adams . CHAPTER XVI LATER THEOLOGY By AMBROSE WHITE VERNON , A.M. ...
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... Period of Maturity . Comic Writings . Spiritual Enthusiasm for the Law . Literature Applied to Practical Tasks . Second Period of Maturity . The Great Speeches of 1858-1860 . The Eclipse of the Winter of 1860- 61. The First Inaugural ...
... Period of Maturity . Comic Writings . Spiritual Enthusiasm for the Law . Literature Applied to Practical Tasks . Second Period of Maturity . The Great Speeches of 1858-1860 . The Eclipse of the Winter of 1860- 61. The First Inaugural ...
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... period of the Reconstruction . The stage is set as for the representation of " the great American novel , " with scenes in New York , Philadelphia , Washington , St. Louis , and villages of New England and Tennessee . The plot is ...
... period of the Reconstruction . The stage is set as for the representation of " the great American novel , " with scenes in New York , Philadelphia , Washington , St. Louis , and villages of New England and Tennessee . The plot is ...
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... period of Arthur horrors which belong to medieval Spain and Italy . Mark Twain admits the charge . He takes his horrors where he finds them . His wide- sweeping satirical purpose requires a comprehensive display of human ignorance ...
... period of Arthur horrors which belong to medieval Spain and Italy . Mark Twain admits the charge . He takes his horrors where he finds them . His wide- sweeping satirical purpose requires a comprehensive display of human ignorance ...
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Page 390 - After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Page 332 - Property does become clothed with a public interest when used in a manner to make it of public consequence and affect the community at large. When, therefore, one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest, he, in effect, grants to the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good, to the extent of the interest he has thus created.
Page 31 - MR. HIGGINSON, — Are you too deeply occupied to say if my verse is alive? The mind is so near itself it cannot see distinctly, and I have none to ask.
Page 371 - The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party; and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose.
Page 363 - The man who is employed for wages is as much a business man as his employer. The attorney in a country town is as much a business man as the corporation counsel in a great metropolis. The merchant at the crossroads store is as much a business man as the merchant of New York. The farmer who goes forth in the morning and toils all day — who begins in the spring and toils all summer — and who, by the application of brain and muscle to the natural resources of the country, creates wealth, is as much...
Page 381 - We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 384 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Page 381 - ... I close. We are not, we must not be, aliens or enemies, but fellow-countrymen and brethren. Although passion has strained our bonds of affection too hardly, they must not, I am sure they will not, be broken. The mystic chords which, proceeding from so many battlefields and so many patriot graves, pass through all the hearts and all hearths in this broad continent of ours, will yet again harmonize in their ancient music when breathed upon by the guardian angel of the nation.
Page 371 - In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party; and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect his purpose. I am almost ready to say that this is probably true; that God wills this contest, and wills that it shall not end yet.
Page 386 - It being one chief project of that old deluder, Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times by keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these latter times by persuading from the use of tongues...