Washington IrvingHoughton, Mifflin, 1884 - 304 páginas |
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... English nation had suffered from all its neighbors . Only re- cently has the study of him by English scholars - I do not refer to the verbal squabbles over the text - been propor- tioned to his preeminence , and his fame is still slowly ...
... English nation had suffered from all its neighbors . Only re- cently has the study of him by English scholars - I do not refer to the verbal squabbles over the text - been propor- tioned to his preeminence , and his fame is still slowly ...
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... English writer , who has traversed and illuminated almost every province of modern thought , controversy , and scholarship ; but who supposes that Mr. Gladstone has added anything to per- manent literature ? He has been an im- mense ...
... English writer , who has traversed and illuminated almost every province of modern thought , controversy , and scholarship ; but who supposes that Mr. Gladstone has added anything to per- manent literature ? He has been an im- mense ...
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... English in training , method , and tra- dition , showing nothing distinctively Amer- ican in their writings except the incidental subject . The first authors whom we may regard as characteristic of the new country - leaving out the ...
... English in training , method , and tra- dition , showing nothing distinctively Amer- ican in their writings except the incidental subject . The first authors whom we may regard as characteristic of the new country - leaving out the ...
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... English curate . The youthful pair were married in 1761 , and two years after embarked for New York , where they landed July 18 , 1763. Upon settling in New York Will- iam Irving quit the sea and took to trade , in which he was ...
... English curate . The youthful pair were married in 1761 , and two years after embarked for New York , where they landed July 18 , 1763. Upon settling in New York Will- iam Irving quit the sea and took to trade , in which he was ...
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... English residents , though the Irvings seem to have been on terms of intimacy with the best of both nationalities . The habits of living were primitive ; the manners were agreeably free ; conviviality at the table was the fashion , and ...
... English residents , though the Irvings seem to have been on terms of intimacy with the best of both nationalities . The habits of living were primitive ; the manners were agreeably free ; conviviality at the table was the fashion , and ...
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