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... Perhaps , strictly speaking , I should say a reprint , and not an edition . In fact , I am not clear ( in spite of the wishes of author and publishers ) that I have any right to call myself editor , for the book is as thoroughly edited ...
... Perhaps , strictly speaking , I should say a reprint , and not an edition . In fact , I am not clear ( in spite of the wishes of author and publishers ) that I have any right to call myself editor , for the book is as thoroughly edited ...
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... perhaps stumble . When the proposal was first made to me , indeed , I thought of trying my hand at a sketch of American politics of thirteen years ago , the date of the Mexican war and of the first appearance of the " Biglow Papers ...
... perhaps stumble . When the proposal was first made to me , indeed , I thought of trying my hand at a sketch of American politics of thirteen years ago , the date of the Mexican war and of the first appearance of the " Biglow Papers ...
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... perhaps be better appreciated at a future day , about Fenimore Cooper's delineations of the physical and spiritual border - land , between white and red , between civilization and savagery . There is dramatic power of a high order about ...
... perhaps be better appreciated at a future day , about Fenimore Cooper's delineations of the physical and spiritual border - land , between white and red , between civilization and savagery . There is dramatic power of a high order about ...
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... Perhaps Jean Paul is of all the satirists I have named the one who at bottom presents mos affinity with Lowell , but the differences are marked . The intellectual sphere of the German is vaster , but though with certain aims before him ...
... Perhaps Jean Paul is of all the satirists I have named the one who at bottom presents mos affinity with Lowell , but the differences are marked . The intellectual sphere of the German is vaster , but though with certain aims before him ...
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... perhaps , an answer to this also . For a specimen of subdued humour in narrative , adhering in the most literal manner to facts , and yet contriving to bring them out by that graphic literal- ness under their most ludicrous aspect ...
... perhaps , an answer to this also . For a specimen of subdued humour in narrative , adhering in the most literal manner to facts , and yet contriving to bring them out by that graphic literal- ness under their most ludicrous aspect ...
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