Father Past and Child Nation: The Romantic Imagination and the Origins of the American Civil War |
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... means ? They who think that it is accidental , unneces- sary , the work of interested or fanatical agitators , and therefore ephemeral , mistake the case altogether . It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces ...
... means ? They who think that it is accidental , unneces- sary , the work of interested or fanatical agitators , and therefore ephemeral , mistake the case altogether . It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces ...
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... means of developing character was a process the fathers themselves did not experience . They had received the " laws of virtue " in a more conscious , aggressive , and rational way from Nature . fathers , but it was an individualistic ...
... means of developing character was a process the fathers themselves did not experience . They had received the " laws of virtue " in a more conscious , aggressive , and rational way from Nature . fathers , but it was an individualistic ...
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... means . His prophetic romance , The Partisan Leader , reflected a wish to return to that world , peacefully if Unlike Cooper and possible , by violence if necessary . Hawthorne , Tucker was not a romancer by profession . But by the mid ...
... means . His prophetic romance , The Partisan Leader , reflected a wish to return to that world , peacefully if Unlike Cooper and possible , by violence if necessary . Hawthorne , Tucker was not a romancer by profession . But by the mid ...
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