The North American Review, Volume 68Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1849 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... language . The style of this work is in itself well worthy of remark , composed , as it is , in a language foreign to the writer . It is written in pure , idiomatic Eng- lish , wholly free from the faults incident to writers in a late ...
... language . The style of this work is in itself well worthy of remark , composed , as it is , in a language foreign to the writer . It is written in pure , idiomatic Eng- lish , wholly free from the faults incident to writers in a late ...
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... language can only take place very gradually , and are to be brought about only by such a gen- eral diffusion of knowledge , as shall bring the people whose property the language is to a sense of the necessity of them . A great deal may ...
... language can only take place very gradually , and are to be brought about only by such a gen- eral diffusion of knowledge , as shall bring the people whose property the language is to a sense of the necessity of them . A great deal may ...
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... languages can be learnt , when treated in this way , at once more rapidly and more thoroughly , than any one language can be acquired isolated , and consequently cut off from the principles of universal language . " But a sufficient ...
... languages can be learnt , when treated in this way , at once more rapidly and more thoroughly , than any one language can be acquired isolated , and consequently cut off from the principles of universal language . " But a sufficient ...
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HUMOROUS AND SATIRICAL POETRY | 1 |
Lives of the Chief Fathers of New England | 82 |
A Sketch of the History of Harvard College | 99 |
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