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At Peace with All Their Neighbors: Catholics and Catholicism in the National ... - Page 58
by William W. Warner - 1994 - 320 pages
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The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: The literati

Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell - American literature - 1850 - 642 pages
...read MR. WALSH'S " Didactics," with much attention and pleasure, I am prepared to admit that he is one of the finest writers, one of the most accomplished...a hurry, one of the most accurate thinkers in the country. Yet had I never seen this work I should never have entertained these opinions. Mr. Walsh has...
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Autobiography, criticism, and index

Edgar Allan Poe - American literature - 1883 - 602 pages
...read Mr. Walsh's " Didactics " with much attention and pleasure, I am prepared to admit that he is one of the finest writers, one of the most accomplished...a hurry, one of the most accurate thinkers in the country. Yet had I never seen this work I should never have entertained these opinions. Mr. Walsh has...
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The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History ..., Volume 5

United States - 1894 - 584 pages
...of "Didactics" (1836), were mainly taken from the "Gazette," and in Poe 's opinion showed him to be "one of the finest writers, one of the most accomplished scholars, and, when not in loo great a hurry, one of the most accurate thinkers in the country." About 1837 he removed to Paris,...
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The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 8

Edgar Allan Poe - 1902 - 412 pages
...read these volumes with much attention and pleasure, we are prepared to admit that their author is one of the finest writers, one of the most accomplished...a hurry, one of the most accurate thinkers in the country. Yet had we never seen this collection of Didactics, we should never have entertained these...
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Georgetown University in the District of Columbia, 1789-1907: Its ..., Volume 2

James Stanislaus Easby-Smith - 1907 - 414 pages
...latter writer, "with much attention and pleasure. I am prepared to admit that he is one of the first writers, one of the most accomplished scholars, and,...a hurry, one of the most accurate thinkers in the conntry." In 1837 Mr. Walsh was appointed United States consul at Paris, where he resided until his...
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Essays and Reviews

Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1984 - 1572 pages
...READ these volumes with much attention and pleasure, we are prepared to admit that their author is be put to the trouble of digging for it one inch....no reader is to be condemned for not putting himse country. Yet had we never seen this collection of Didactics, we should never have entertained these...
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The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography

United States - 1897 - 590 pages
...of "Didactics" (1836), were mainly taken from the "Gazette," and in Poe's opinion showed him to be "one of the finest writers, one of the most accomplished...a hurry, one of the most accurate thinkers in the country." About 1837 he removed to Paris, where he was U. S. consul 1845-51, correspondent of the "...
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