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Page 87
... sense of men in the 1820s and early 1830s that they lived in a separate age . 12 The developing sense of a collective past was funda- mentally new to Americans wrenched from the golden age and , as we shall see , the idea of " the past ...
... sense of men in the 1820s and early 1830s that they lived in a separate age . 12 The developing sense of a collective past was funda- mentally new to Americans wrenched from the golden age and , as we shall see , the idea of " the past ...
Page 131
... sense could be either noble or base . Men were spoken of as being of " good character , " but also of " bad " or " dubious character . " If one were said , however , to be a " man of character , " there was no doubt that praise was ...
... sense could be either noble or base . Men were spoken of as being of " good character , " but also of " bad " or " dubious character . " If one were said , however , to be a " man of character , " there was no doubt that praise was ...
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... sense of the classic models which have given coherence to various philosophies of history and given structure to expectations of the future . The tradi- tional models of historical change -- the cycle symbolizing recurrence or the ...
... sense of the classic models which have given coherence to various philosophies of history and given structure to expectations of the future . The tradi- tional models of historical change -- the cycle symbolizing recurrence or the ...
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