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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... less mixed the audience , the safer is it to quote for asso- ciation . Our difficulty is that almost all our audiences are mixed . We no longer possess what large segments of the citizenry of the nineteenth century possessed - and what ...
... less mixed the audience , the safer is it to quote for asso- ciation . Our difficulty is that almost all our audiences are mixed . We no longer possess what large segments of the citizenry of the nineteenth century possessed - and what ...
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... less than friendship : less , because there is no intellectual parity ; more , because ( even when the relation remains wholly dispassionate , as in re- spect to old ladies ) there is something mysterious and oracular about a woman's ...
... less than friendship : less , because there is no intellectual parity ; more , because ( even when the relation remains wholly dispassionate , as in re- spect to old ladies ) there is something mysterious and oracular about a woman's ...
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... less and less . Robert M. Hutchins , The Conflict in Education , 1953 , re- marked that " in the United States we have discovered that [ the specialist ] can be a man who learns less and less about less and less . " One of the ...
... less and less . Robert M. Hutchins , The Conflict in Education , 1953 , re- marked that " in the United States we have discovered that [ the specialist ] can be a man who learns less and less about less and less . " One of the ...
Contents
WE LOOK AT OURSELVES AND OUR COUNTRY | 1 |
of Americans | 9 |
a Look at the Country 65 | 65 |
Copyright | |
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American ANON asked beautiful become believe body called civilization comes common Constitution dead death earth equal experience eyes face fact father fear feel force freedom GEORGE give ground hand head hear heart HENRY hope human Ibid idea interest JAMES JOHN keep kind land leave less letter liberty light LINCOLN lines live look March Mark matter means mind nature never night once passed peace person play political race reason seemed sense side society soul speak speech spirit stand talk tell things thought tion tree true truth turn United universe whole write York young
Bibliographic information
| Title | The American Treasury, 1455-1955 |
| Editor | Clifton Fadiman |
| Compiled by | Clifton Fadiman |
| Publisher | Harper, 1955 |
| Length | 1108 pages |
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