American Quarterly Review, Том 22Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1837 |
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... course there was no similarity of ideas and sentiments ; they had neither the sympathies nor the local knowledge of those who are brought up and educated in the same district of country . Even the ordinary topics of interest , some of ...
... course there was no similarity of ideas and sentiments ; they had neither the sympathies nor the local knowledge of those who are brought up and educated in the same district of country . Even the ordinary topics of interest , some of ...
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... course until she drew up of her own accord . She would soon find that she was fighting with shadows . But , according to Miss Harriet , " God has given the universe to women as well as to men , and man has caged them in one corner of it ...
... course until she drew up of her own accord . She would soon find that she was fighting with shadows . But , according to Miss Harriet , " God has given the universe to women as well as to men , and man has caged them in one corner of it ...
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... course of our reading - excepting it be of Cherubina - did we meet with a woman that was so totally deprived of that best of woman's grace - modesty . We do not say that Harriet Martineau made use of indecent language , or that she ...
... course of our reading - excepting it be of Cherubina - did we meet with a woman that was so totally deprived of that best of woman's grace - modesty . We do not say that Harriet Martineau made use of indecent language , or that she ...
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... weary or untired , should , as a matter of course , yield up the best places in the stage to a lady passenger . I do not think it rational or fair that five gentlemen should ride on the top of 1837. } 45 Miss Martineau on America .
... weary or untired , should , as a matter of course , yield up the best places in the stage to a lady passenger . I do not think it rational or fair that five gentlemen should ride on the top of 1837. } 45 Miss Martineau on America .
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... course , is a mat- ter for debate . It will certainly not be satisfactory to the sufferers , and still less so to the friends of popular institutions ; for there is no cause of pride in the obligation to acknowledge that our misfortunes ...
... course , is a mat- ter for debate . It will certainly not be satisfactory to the sufferers , and still less so to the friends of popular institutions ; for there is no cause of pride in the obligation to acknowledge that our misfortunes ...
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