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... seems to have made an impression , particularly on Maeterlinck , who called Grierson " the supreme essayist of the age " and said that the book had influenced him more than any other he had ever read . Ten years later , a good deal of ...
... seems to have made an impression , particularly on Maeterlinck , who called Grierson " the supreme essayist of the age " and said that the book had influenced him more than any other he had ever read . Ten years later , a good deal of ...
Page 261
... seem the same place , " she writes . " The bare echoing rooms , the neglect and defacement of all - though the place is ... seems sadly out of time . [ italics mine ] " Time is after all a func- tion of the life of a society , and as to ...
... seem the same place , " she writes . " The bare echoing rooms , the neglect and defacement of all - though the place is ... seems sadly out of time . [ italics mine ] " Time is after all a func- tion of the life of a society , and as to ...
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... seems to me merely an illustration of the inability of men to appreciate other forms of energy than that which is natural to them . I am not , and I fear could not be a business man — but the types that I have in mind seem to me among ...
... seems to me merely an illustration of the inability of men to appreciate other forms of energy than that which is natural to them . I am not , and I fear could not be a business man — but the types that I have in mind seem to me among ...
Contents
Harriet Beecher Stowe | 3 |
Calvin Stowe Francis Grierson The Battle Hymn | 59 |
Abraham Lincoln | 99 |
Copyright | |
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Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War Edmund Wilson Limited preview - 1994 |
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