Father Past and Child Nation: The Romantic Imagination and the Origins of the American Civil War |
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... pass through a season of youth in its progressive develop- ment , and ... during this season the individual partakes of the youthfulness of the community to which he belongs . In the young nation all men were children . 30 5 If the ...
... pass through a season of youth in its progressive develop- ment , and ... during this season the individual partakes of the youthfulness of the community to which he belongs . In the young nation all men were children . 30 5 If the ...
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... pass before him , but Hawthorne does not reveal whether it is sleep itself or just the " deeper sleep " that has fled . 24 There are other indications of the dream - like nature of his adventures . Robin stops the passing man to ask ...
... pass before him , but Hawthorne does not reveal whether it is sleep itself or just the " deeper sleep " that has fled . 24 There are other indications of the dream - like nature of his adventures . Robin stops the passing man to ask ...
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... pass . Jones ' prophetic character becomes most clearly apparent to Melville in the battle between the Serapis and the Bon Homme Richard , a battle that seems to him more a fight between brothers than one between strangers . " It was as ...
... pass . Jones ' prophetic character becomes most clearly apparent to Melville in the battle between the Serapis and the Bon Homme Richard , a battle that seems to him more a fight between brothers than one between strangers . " It was as ...
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