The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 128Atlantic Monthly Company, 1921 - American essays |
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It was some seconds before I could clearly dis- tinguish things . A row of half a dozen extending telephones stood at the left of a big desk littered with papers . On a side table were numerous maps and de- signs , with models of ...
It was some seconds before I could clearly dis- tinguish things . A row of half a dozen extending telephones stood at the left of a big desk littered with papers . On a side table were numerous maps and de- signs , with models of ...
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Isaiah had dealt earlier with these things ; and one rises from that prophet wondering what more can be said , how better said . Yet Isaiah never spake like the man of this Sermon . This man had the books of Isaiah , but he went behind ...
Isaiah had dealt earlier with these things ; and one rises from that prophet wondering what more can be said , how better said . Yet Isaiah never spake like the man of this Sermon . This man had the books of Isaiah , but he went behind ...
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It should ex- press what it was , and this was some- thing that neither Adams nor La Farge understood . ... as the world has found ample room for the Gettysburg Address - simple , elemental things of art that shall never want for room .
It should ex- press what it was , and this was some- thing that neither Adams nor La Farge understood . ... as the world has found ample room for the Gettysburg Address - simple , elemental things of art that shall never want for room .
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But in place of raw materials , the unattempted yet in prose or rhyme , we give him only the graded systems of the schools , which make for many essential things , but which may be more deadly to his creative faculty than any- thing the ...
But in place of raw materials , the unattempted yet in prose or rhyme , we give him only the graded systems of the schools , which make for many essential things , but which may be more deadly to his creative faculty than any- thing the ...
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Earth and the common face of nature ... rememberable things . But these things are written in books , have not spoken to them and hung in galleries , and can be taught more quickly there ? They cannot be taught at all there .
Earth and the common face of nature ... rememberable things . But these things are written in books , have not spoken to them and hung in galleries , and can be taught more quickly there ? They cannot be taught at all there .
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