North-American Review and Miscellaneous Journal, Volumes 245-246University of Northern Iowa, 1938 |
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Page 340
... seemed as fixed as the hills ; in the United States the memories of the Civil War were already em- balmed in history books when I was at school . The whole world seemed a solid and a pleasant place for us . Everything was made for our ...
... seemed as fixed as the hills ; in the United States the memories of the Civil War were already em- balmed in history books when I was at school . The whole world seemed a solid and a pleasant place for us . Everything was made for our ...
Page 385
... seemed to be using that method for its traditional purposes . Even his innovations seemed less personal to Europeans than they did to us . Dry humor ? There had been Mark Twain before him , and a host of others ; and what about the ...
... seemed to be using that method for its traditional purposes . Even his innovations seemed less personal to Europeans than they did to us . Dry humor ? There had been Mark Twain before him , and a host of others ; and what about the ...
Page 151
... seemed to me a great event and a great hero ; a great story and a great tradi- tion . There seemed to me to be genius in it and romance and something that was profoundly American - some- thing that we have lost , perhaps , but that ...
... seemed to me a great event and a great hero ; a great story and a great tradi- tion . There seemed to me to be genius in it and romance and something that was profoundly American - some- thing that we have lost , perhaps , but that ...
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