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Horace Elisha Scudder. classic authors , especially of Rome , were quoted with a sense of their being final authority . The newspaper in Webster's youth had scarcely yet asserted itself very forcibly . The few centres of population had ...
Horace Elisha Scudder. classic authors , especially of Rome , were quoted with a sense of their being final authority . The newspaper in Webster's youth had scarcely yet asserted itself very forcibly . The few centres of population had ...
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... sense and con- venience will sooner or later get the better of the present absurd practice . " The pictures which came to bring art as an adjunct in impressing the young mind were of the order already familiar in the New England Primer ...
... sense and con- venience will sooner or later get the better of the present absurd practice . " The pictures which came to bring art as an adjunct in impressing the young mind were of the order already familiar in the New England Primer ...
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... sense . Writers and grammarians have attempted for centuries . to introduce a subjunctive mode into Eng- lish , yet without effect ; the language re- quires none distinct from the indicative ; and therefore a subjunctive form stands in ...
... sense . Writers and grammarians have attempted for centuries . to introduce a subjunctive mode into Eng- lish , yet without effect ; the language re- quires none distinct from the indicative ; and therefore a subjunctive form stands in ...
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... sense of the people which was as firm as Franklin's , and was used , in his enthusiasm , to determine ques- tions in language and literature never before brought to such a test . Unquestionably a main source of Webster's strength and ...
... sense of the people which was as firm as Franklin's , and was used , in his enthusiasm , to determine ques- tions in language and literature never before brought to such a test . Unquestionably a main source of Webster's strength and ...
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... sense of the business relations of his literary work is seen in this early and late energy in securing satisfactory copyright laws . It is noticeable , too , that in his cor- respondence with Daniel Webster he took the position which ...
... sense of the business relations of his literary work is seen in this early and late energy in securing satisfactory copyright laws . It is noticeable , too , that in his cor- respondence with Daniel Webster he took the position which ...
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Page 105 - our learning is superficial in a shameful degree, . . . our colleges are disgracefully destitute of books and philosophical apparatus, . . . and I am ashamed to own that scarcely a branch of science can be fully investigated in America for want of books, especially original works.