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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... idea of democ- racy - the idea that all political power should remain in the hands of the populace , that its exercise by superior men is intrinsically immoral . Out of this idea spring innumerable notions and crazes that are no more ...
... idea of democ- racy - the idea that all political power should remain in the hands of the populace , that its exercise by superior men is intrinsically immoral . Out of this idea spring innumerable notions and crazes that are no more ...
Page 385
... idea has not been stated distinctly , there is to be , or it is supposed possible there will be , a South- ern Confederacy . I do not mean , when I allude to this statement , that any one seriously contemplates such a state of things ...
... idea has not been stated distinctly , there is to be , or it is supposed possible there will be , a South- ern Confederacy . I do not mean , when I allude to this statement , that any one seriously contemplates such a state of things ...
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... idea is simply music ; the idea without the music is prose from its very definitiveness . On Poets and Poetry I would define , in brief , the Poetry of words as The Rhythmical Creation of Beauty . Its sole arbiter is Taste . With the ...
... idea is simply music ; the idea without the music is prose from its very definitiveness . On Poets and Poetry I would define , in brief , the Poetry of words as The Rhythmical Creation of Beauty . Its sole arbiter is Taste . With the ...
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