Father Past and Child Nation: The Romantic Imagination and the Origins of the American Civil War |
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... least Schlesinger does not ask them ) to provide solutions to the economic and cultural differences that existed between the sections , though to many historians such issues over - shadowed slavery in their importance . Insisting on an ...
... least Schlesinger does not ask them ) to provide solutions to the economic and cultural differences that existed between the sections , though to many historians such issues over - shadowed slavery in their importance . Insisting on an ...
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... least for the moment . good friend Robin , --not to - night , at least . Some few days hence , if you wish it , I will speed you on your journey . Or , if you prefer to remain with us , perhaps , as you are a shrewd youth , you may rise ...
... least for the moment . good friend Robin , --not to - night , at least . Some few days hence , if you wish it , I will speed you on your journey . Or , if you prefer to remain with us , perhaps , as you are a shrewd youth , you may rise ...
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... least express their deepest desires even if they could not fulfill them . Lincoln's warning that prosaic times would breed passion for destruction , Hawthorne's parricidal desires when faced with the bourgeois life , Emerson and ...
... least express their deepest desires even if they could not fulfill them . Lincoln's warning that prosaic times would breed passion for destruction , Hawthorne's parricidal desires when faced with the bourgeois life , Emerson and ...
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