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... sense whatever of the construction of a sentence or a paragraph , and hardly even a sense of syntax . The descriptions of the coast of Maine , in The Pearl of Orr's Island — which in- spired Sarah Orne Jewett - are good examples of this ...
... sense whatever of the construction of a sentence or a paragraph , and hardly even a sense of syntax . The descriptions of the coast of Maine , in The Pearl of Orr's Island — which in- spired Sarah Orne Jewett - are good examples of this ...
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... sense of the fitness , appropriateness , harmony of things . " " With all [ Lincoln's ] awkwardness of manner , " wrote Don Piatt , a journalist who had seen a good deal of him , " and utter disregard of social conventionalities that ...
... sense of the fitness , appropriateness , harmony of things . " " With all [ Lincoln's ] awkwardness of manner , " wrote Don Piatt , a journalist who had seen a good deal of him , " and utter disregard of social conventionalities that ...
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... sense , that he has also reservations about Dickens , for whom he does feel some admiration , and that he can only fully approve of George Eliot , to whom he devotes a dispro- portionate amount of space . But it was not merely pru- dery ...
... sense , that he has also reservations about Dickens , for whom he does feel some admiration , and that he can only fully approve of George Eliot , to whom he devotes a dispro- portionate amount of space . But it was not merely pru- dery ...
Contents
Harriet Beecher Stowe | 3 |
Calvin Stowe Francis Grierson The Battle Hymn | 59 |
Abraham Lincoln | 99 |
Copyright | |
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