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... American government and the quality of Washington society . Although the portrait is by no means com- plete in this one paragraph - or even in this one section , where portraits of Madison and Gallatin are used to help characterize ...
... American government and the quality of Washington society . Although the portrait is by no means com- plete in this one paragraph - or even in this one section , where portraits of Madison and Gallatin are used to help characterize ...
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Essays on American History, Autobiography, Drama, and Fiction David Levin. nineteenth- and twentieth - century Englishmen and Americans on the religious , political , and economic policies of Spain under Philip II . One probable reason ...
Essays on American History, Autobiography, Drama, and Fiction David Levin. nineteenth- and twentieth - century Englishmen and Americans on the religious , political , and economic policies of Spain under Philip II . One probable reason ...
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... American wilderness was the realm of disorder , the last strong- hold of the Devil . In the romantic world of nineteenth - century American thought , the domain of untouched nature was not totally different from this demonic wilderness ...
... American wilderness was the realm of disorder , the last strong- hold of the Devil . In the romantic world of nineteenth - century American thought , the domain of untouched nature was not totally different from this demonic wilderness ...
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