Father Past and Child Nation: The Romantic Imagination and the Origins of the American Civil War |
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Page 96
... Everett set out to tell Americans who they were and what they should become . He attempted to define the national character and purpose in a series of orations that spanned the age , and it was as an orator that Everett made an ...
... Everett set out to tell Americans who they were and what they should become . He attempted to define the national character and purpose in a series of orations that spanned the age , and it was as an orator that Everett made an ...
Page 97
... Everett's indifference to holding political office . Everett set himself up as the interpreter not only of the fathers ' will , but of European culture as well , borrowing from the latter to interpret the implications of 18 In his ...
... Everett's indifference to holding political office . Everett set himself up as the interpreter not only of the fathers ' will , but of European culture as well , borrowing from the latter to interpret the implications of 18 In his ...
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... Everett , was that " having cast forth the seed of liberty , " and having watered it with their blood , " their children might gather the fruit of its branches . " 39 Here Everett was putting the children back in the garden of liberty ...
... Everett , was that " having cast forth the seed of liberty , " and having watered it with their blood , " their children might gather the fruit of its branches . " 39 Here Everett was putting the children back in the garden of liberty ...
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