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... qualities of appearance with intellectual and moral qualities and with a generalization about the forces behind American government and the quality of Washington society . Although the portrait is by no means com- plete in this one ...
... qualities of appearance with intellectual and moral qualities and with a generalization about the forces behind American government and the quality of Washington society . Although the portrait is by no means com- plete in this one ...
Page 67
... qualities in the book is the author's almost total lack of rancor . His brother James , Samuel Keimer , Gover- nor Keith , and General Edward Braddock - all these people may be said to have injured him ; yet he presents them all with ...
... qualities in the book is the author's almost total lack of rancor . His brother James , Samuel Keimer , Gover- nor Keith , and General Edward Braddock - all these people may be said to have injured him ; yet he presents them all with ...
Page 115
... qualities . The result is often regrettable . Besides the imagery of birds , flowers , and sunshine , Hawthorne invented a set of facts to illustrate these qualities in each romance . Phoebe Pyncheon , the country cousin in The House of ...
... qualities . The result is often regrettable . Besides the imagery of birds , flowers , and sunshine , Hawthorne invented a set of facts to illustrate these qualities in each romance . Phoebe Pyncheon , the country cousin in The House of ...
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