Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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... race . In American literature we have a fresh field and an old race ; we have new conditions , and an experience which ante- dates them . We were educated in the Old World , and a man carries his education with him . He cannot escape it ...
... race . In American literature we have a fresh field and an old race ; we have new conditions , and an experience which ante- dates them . We were educated in the Old World , and a man carries his education with him . He cannot escape it ...
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... race is not to charge it with lack of first - hand insight and force , but to explain some of its characteristics ... race is shaped , colored , and formed largely in the earliest con- tacts of that race with nature and with life ; with ...
... race is not to charge it with lack of first - hand insight and force , but to explain some of its characteristics ... race is shaped , colored , and formed largely in the earliest con- tacts of that race with nature and with life ; with ...
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... races at maturity , but there is likely to be more buoyancy , confident ease , over- flowing vitality , than at a later period ; and these earlier works enrich all later work by the qualities they bring into the race consciousness ...
... races at maturity , but there is likely to be more buoyancy , confident ease , over- flowing vitality , than at a later period ; and these earlier works enrich all later work by the qualities they bring into the race consciousness ...
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... race has had its youth , its dreams and visions ; but that youth was lived on another continent ; so far as the record of experience in our literature is concerned , we have always been mature people at hard work . The be- ginnings of ...
... race has had its youth , its dreams and visions ; but that youth was lived on another continent ; so far as the record of experience in our literature is concerned , we have always been mature people at hard work . The be- ginnings of ...
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... race ; but the spontaneity , the freedom , the joyousness , of creative art were not in it . They could not be in it ; the men who wrote our early chronicles and his- tories , who took part in the great debates which pre- ceded the ...
... race ; but the spontaneity , the freedom , the joyousness , of creative art were not in it . They could not be in it ; the men who wrote our early chronicles and his- tories , who took part in the great debates which pre- ceded the ...
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