Washington IrvingHoughton, Mifflin, 1881 - 304 páginas For fifty years Irving charmed and instructed the American people and was the author who held on the whole the first place in their affections. |
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... the eighteenth century , and so lightly es- teemed by some that Hume could doubt if he were a poet " capable of furnishing a proper entertainment to a refined and in- telligent audience , " and attribute to the rudeness of PRELIMINARY . 3.
... the eighteenth century , and so lightly es- teemed by some that Hume could doubt if he were a poet " capable of furnishing a proper entertainment to a refined and in- telligent audience , " and attribute to the rudeness of PRELIMINARY . 3.
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... doubt a sign of a deeper change impending in philosophic and meta- physical speculation . An age is apt to take a lurch in a body one way or another , and those most active in it do not always per- ceive how largely its direction is ...
... doubt a sign of a deeper change impending in philosophic and meta- physical speculation . An age is apt to take a lurch in a body one way or another , and those most active in it do not always per- ceive how largely its direction is ...
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... doubt , the poetry and the essays addressed to the mood of unrest , of questioning , to the scientific spirit and to the shifting attitudes of social change and reform , claim the attention of an age that is completely adrift in regard ...
... doubt , the poetry and the essays addressed to the mood of unrest , of questioning , to the scientific spirit and to the shifting attitudes of social change and reform , claim the attention of an age that is completely adrift in regard ...
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... doubt a dawdler in rou- tine studies , but he assimilated what suited him . He found his food in such pieces of English literature as were floating about , in " Robinson Crusoe " and " Sinbad ; " at ten he was inspired by a translation ...
... doubt a dawdler in rou- tine studies , but he assimilated what suited him . He found his food in such pieces of English literature as were floating about , in " Robinson Crusoe " and " Sinbad ; " at ten he was inspired by a translation ...
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... doubt had much to do with his disinclination to severe study . For the next two or three years much time was consumed in excursions up the Hudson and the Mohawk , and in adventurous jour- neys as far as the wilds of Ogdensburg and to ...
... doubt had much to do with his disinclination to severe study . For the next two or three years much time was consumed in excursions up the Hudson and the Mohawk , and in adventurous jour- neys as far as the wilds of Ogdensburg and to ...
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