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Página 122
... romance . In these stories Irving set an example to the New England group of story- tellers and to the later men and women who have since explained to us also the South and the West by frank and direct tales of the way people live in ...
... romance . In these stories Irving set an example to the New England group of story- tellers and to the later men and women who have since explained to us also the South and the West by frank and direct tales of the way people live in ...
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... romance over the banks of the Hudson . To the end of time will the Catskills be Rip Van Winkle's country , and New York the town of the Knicker- bockers . ―― It is not by his elaborately wrought biographies that Irving is to survive ...
... romance over the banks of the Hudson . To the end of time will the Catskills be Rip Van Winkle's country , and New York the town of the Knicker- bockers . ―― It is not by his elaborately wrought biographies that Irving is to survive ...
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... romance , " continued the Edinburgh Review , “ does not descend into the particulars , " this being the same fallacy satirized by Ruskin , whose imaginary painter produced a quadruped which was a generalization between a pony and a pig ...
... romance , " continued the Edinburgh Review , “ does not descend into the particulars , " this being the same fallacy satirized by Ruskin , whose imaginary painter produced a quadruped which was a generalization between a pony and a pig ...
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... which , as they were in Spanish , were entirely unintelligible to the greater number of those who admired his romance and his style . Prescott was master of his voluminous material . But not 172 EDWARD EVERETT HALE, JR.
... which , as they were in Spanish , were entirely unintelligible to the greater number of those who admired his romance and his style . Prescott was master of his voluminous material . But not 172 EDWARD EVERETT HALE, JR.
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... romance , or if we study him for his technique , we shall find only what long since had its day . If we come to him from the post - Darwinian historians , we may think him superficial and inattentive to matters of importance . But even ...
... romance , or if we study him for his technique , we shall find only what long since had its day . If we come to him from the post - Darwinian historians , we may think him superficial and inattentive to matters of importance . But even ...
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Página 263 - The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.
Página 113 - Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured, bearing for its motto no such miserable interrogatory as "What is all this worth?
Página 38 - Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy, and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night ; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him. Drive thy business, let not that drive thee; and early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise,
Página 80 - Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions to cause others to be elected ; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise ; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Página 263 - On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it — all sought to avert it.
Página 40 - What maintains one Vice, would bring up two Children. "You may think perhaps, that a little Tea, or a little Punch now and then, Diet a little more costly, Clothes a little finer, and a little Entertainment now and then, can be no great Matter; but remember what Poor Richard says, Many a Little makes a Mickle; and farther, Beware of little Expenses; A small Leak will sink a great Ship; and again.
Página 40 - If you would be wealthy, think of saving, as well as of getting. The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her outgoes are greater than her incomes.
Página 192 - The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.
Página 106 - Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.
Página 36 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.