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literature of America written with a seriousness not meant to be absurd . ... American crowds , and public gatherings , and thronged streets , show the best - looking aggregate of humanity , male and female , in the world .
literature of America written with a seriousness not meant to be absurd . ... American crowds , and public gatherings , and thronged streets , show the best - looking aggregate of humanity , male and female , in the world .
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But no one familiar with America can fail to have observed how completely that object has succeeded . An American farmer's or blacksmith's boy may know nothing else ; but he knows two things - how to work a sum in mul- tiplication ...
But no one familiar with America can fail to have observed how completely that object has succeeded . An American farmer's or blacksmith's boy may know nothing else ; but he knows two things - how to work a sum in mul- tiplication ...
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If the condition of America was not exactly like the time when ' there was no king in Israel , but every man did that ... Observers of American society have detected even in the North something of that degeneracy in the best elements of ...
If the condition of America was not exactly like the time when ' there was no king in Israel , but every man did that ... Observers of American society have detected even in the North something of that degeneracy in the best elements of ...
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 122 |
| Editors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) |
| Contributor | George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1867 |
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