The Beauties of the Hon. Daniel Webster: Selected and Arranged, with a Critical Essay on His Genius and WritingsE. Walker, 1839 - 196 pages |
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... nature , competent to be com- petitors , or fellow - workers , on the theatre of in- tellectual operation ... natural causes , it received an irregular and violent im- pulse ; it whirled along , with a fearful celerity , till at length ...
... nature , competent to be com- petitors , or fellow - workers , on the theatre of in- tellectual operation ... natural causes , it received an irregular and violent im- pulse ; it whirled along , with a fearful celerity , till at length ...
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... nature . Poetry is , in this respect , but the handmaid of true philosophy and morality ; it deals with us as human beings , naturally rever- encing those whose visible connexion with this state of existence is severed , and who may yet ...
... nature . Poetry is , in this respect , but the handmaid of true philosophy and morality ; it deals with us as human beings , naturally rever- encing those whose visible connexion with this state of existence is severed , and who may yet ...
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... nature in its depravity , and in its paroxysms of crime , as an infernal nature , a fiend in the ordinary display and development of his 112 BEAUTIES OF WEBSTER .
... nature in its depravity , and in its paroxysms of crime , as an infernal nature , a fiend in the ordinary display and development of his 112 BEAUTIES OF WEBSTER .
Contents
Critical Essay | 13 |
The Progress of Civilization | 17 |
Religious Feeling | 30 |
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