The American Treasury, 1455-1955Clifton Fadiman Harper, 1955 - 1108 pages Anthology of quotations by Americans, or about America, classified by subject. |
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Page 105
... hear a sweep screaking ; or jumbled - up voices , it was so still , and sounds come so far ; and by and by you could ... hear nor nothing to see just solid lonesomeness . Next you'd see a raft sliding by , away off yonder , and maybe a ...
... hear a sweep screaking ; or jumbled - up voices , it was so still , and sounds come so far ; and by and by you could ... hear nor nothing to see just solid lonesomeness . Next you'd see a raft sliding by , away off yonder , and maybe a ...
Page 386
... hear of natural blasts and mildews , war , pestilence , and famine , than to hear gentlemen talk of se- cession . To break up this great government ! to dismember this glorious country ! to astonish Europe with an act of folly such as ...
... hear of natural blasts and mildews , war , pestilence , and famine , than to hear gentlemen talk of se- cession . To break up this great government ! to dismember this glorious country ! to astonish Europe with an act of folly such as ...
Page 644
... hear you. Away, you rolling river, Oh Shenandoah, I love to hear you. Away, I'm bound away 'Cross the wide Missouri. "Shenandoah" I was seeing Nellie home, I was seeing Nellie home ; And 'twas from Aunt Dinah's quilting party I was ...
... hear you. Away, you rolling river, Oh Shenandoah, I love to hear you. Away, I'm bound away 'Cross the wide Missouri. "Shenandoah" I was seeing Nellie home, I was seeing Nellie home ; And 'twas from Aunt Dinah's quilting party I was ...
Contents
IN GENERAL | 9 |
IN PARTICULAR | 32 |
THINKING CONTINENTALLY | 65 |
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