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 474
... seemed gloomy . On the Avenue in front of the White House were several hundred colored people , mostly women and children , weeping and wailing their loss . This crowd did not appear to diminish through the whole of that cold , wet day ...
... seemed gloomy . On the Avenue in front of the White House were several hundred colored people , mostly women and children , weeping and wailing their loss . This crowd did not appear to diminish through the whole of that cold , wet day ...
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... 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 |
IN PARTICULAR | 32 |
THINKING CONTINENTALLY | 65 |
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