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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... ourselves and our country , whether it issue from Irvin Cobb defining " corn likker " or Thomas Jefferson defining our basic liberties . Because Americans seem to have reflected on as well as enjoyed liberty , liberty gets more space ...
... ourselves and our country , whether it issue from Irvin Cobb defining " corn likker " or Thomas Jefferson defining our basic liberties . Because Americans seem to have reflected on as well as enjoyed liberty , liberty gets more space ...
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... ourselves for taking work seriously . It is no mark of instability in us that Ford and Thoreau should both occupy places in our pantheon . We turn from one to the other , not because we are blind to the contradiction but because we are ...
... ourselves for taking work seriously . It is no mark of instability in us that Ford and Thoreau should both occupy places in our pantheon . We turn from one to the other , not because we are blind to the contradiction but because we are ...
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... ourselves and our officers ; yet our final haven was predestined ere we slipped from the stocks of creation . Thus sailing with sealed orders , we ourselves are the repositories of the secret packet , whose mysterious contents we long ...
... ourselves and our officers ; yet our final haven was predestined ere we slipped from the stocks of creation . Thus sailing with sealed orders , we ourselves are the repositories of the secret packet , whose mysterious contents we long ...
Contents
IN GENERAL | 9 |
IN PARTICULAR | 32 |
THINKING CONTINENTALLY | 65 |
Copyright | |
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