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
... seemed to me , sweetly to represent the loveliness and beauty of Jesus Christ . The whole book of Canticles used to be pleasant to me , and I used to be much in reading it , about that time ; and found , from time to time , an inward ...
... seemed to me , sweetly to represent the loveliness and beauty of Jesus Christ . The whole book of Canticles used to be pleasant to me , and I used to be much in reading it , about that time ; and found , from time to time , an inward ...
Page 470
... seemed then to know why I had done this ; I seemed then to know why I had come and to feel how not to have come would have been miserably , horribly to miss it . It made everything right — it made everything price- less . The moon was ...
... seemed then to know why I had done this ; I seemed then to know why I had come and to feel how not to have come would have been miserably , horribly to miss it . It made everything right — it made everything price- less . The moon was ...
Page 744
... seemed sure , in such order as seemed rigorously consequent , he could fix for a familiar mo- ment a necessary sequence of human movement . The result had satisfied him as little as at Harvard College . Where he saw sequence , other men ...
... seemed sure , in such order as seemed rigorously consequent , he could fix for a familiar mo- ment a necessary sequence of human movement . The result had satisfied him as little as at Harvard College . Where he saw sequence , other men ...
Contents
WE LOOK AT OURSELVES AND OUR COUNTRY | 1 |
of Americans | 9 |
a Look at the Country | 65 |
Copyright | |
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