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 117
... things , would often of a sud- den kindle up , as it were , a sweet burning in my heart ; an ardor of soul , that I know not how to express . Not long after I began to experience these things , I gave an account to my father of some things ...
... things , would often of a sud- den kindle up , as it were , a sweet burning in my heart ; an ardor of soul , that I know not how to express . Not long after I began to experience these things , I gave an account to my father of some things ...
Page 296
... thing European — their perpetual reference of all things to some American standard or precedent which exists only in their own unscrupulous wind- bags and then our unhappy poverty of voice , of speech , and of physiog- nomy - these things ...
... thing European — their perpetual reference of all things to some American standard or precedent which exists only in their own unscrupulous wind- bags and then our unhappy poverty of voice , of speech , and of physiog- nomy - these things ...
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... things will not support existence , and the effect of solidity you reach is but perfume and simulacrum . Letter to Henry James , May 4 , 1907 Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise ; but it isn't reason that ...
... things will not support existence , and the effect of solidity you reach is but perfume and simulacrum . Letter to Henry James , May 4 , 1907 Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise ; but it isn't reason that ...
Contents
IN GENERAL | 9 |
IN PARTICULAR | 32 |
THINKING CONTINENTALLY | 65 |
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