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... , and the output of books has continued over that period . Since about thirty thousand books are pub- lished each year in this country alone , it is manifestly impossible to try to pick and choose with any considered PREFACE xiii.
... , and the output of books has continued over that period . Since about thirty thousand books are pub- lished each year in this country alone , it is manifestly impossible to try to pick and choose with any considered PREFACE xiii.
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... period of general culture in this land , particularly in New England , where Emerson could sit down to dinner with such friends as Longfellow , Bryant , Whittier , Thoreau , James Russell Lowell , Oliver Wendell Holmes , and Nathaniel ...
... period of general culture in this land , particularly in New England , where Emerson could sit down to dinner with such friends as Longfellow , Bryant , Whittier , Thoreau , James Russell Lowell , Oliver Wendell Holmes , and Nathaniel ...
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... period of twenty years during which he was a local aristocrat of the landed gentry , an elected public official , a courtier , a cautious participant in the religious and political battles of the time , a traveler , a moralist , and a ...
... period of twenty years during which he was a local aristocrat of the landed gentry , an elected public official , a courtier , a cautious participant in the religious and political battles of the time , a traveler , a moralist , and a ...
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