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Page 743
... HOLMES WITH THE OLIver Wendell HOLMESES , father and son , the theology of Calvinism has faded , but its habits of mind persist . The father of Dr. Holmes was Abiel Holmes , a Connecticut preacher , who came to occupy in Cambridge ...
... HOLMES WITH THE OLIver Wendell HOLMESES , father and son , the theology of Calvinism has faded , but its habits of mind persist . The father of Dr. Holmes was Abiel Holmes , a Connecticut preacher , who came to occupy in Cambridge ...
Page 756
... Holmes had a streak of " the mean Yankee . " His relations with William and Henry James are , in this connection , particularly significant . Holmes and William , as young men , were extremely close . Holmes's mind was fundamentally ...
... Holmes had a streak of " the mean Yankee . " His relations with William and Henry James are , in this connection , particularly significant . Holmes and William , as young men , were extremely close . Holmes's mind was fundamentally ...
Page 775
... Holmes characterized as " bosh , " but it brought from Harold Laski a paean of praise . It may be that in the cli- mate of appreciation provided by the liberal group the spirit of Puritan protest was coming to life in Holmes after the ...
... Holmes characterized as " bosh , " but it brought from Harold Laski a paean of praise . It may be that in the cli- mate of appreciation provided by the liberal group the spirit of Puritan protest was coming to life in Holmes after the ...
Contents
Harriet Beecher Stowe | 3 |
Calvin Stowe Francis Grierson The Battle Hymn | 59 |
Abraham Lincoln | 99 |
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