The Biglow Papers, Band 2Ticknor and Fields, 1867 - 175 Seiten |
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... thought as I did in a way that would tell , I imagined to myself such an upcountry man as I had often seen at anti- slavery gatherings , capable of district - school English , but always instinctively falling back into the natural ...
... thought as I did in a way that would tell , I imagined to myself such an upcountry man as I had often seen at anti- slavery gatherings , capable of district - school English , but always instinctively falling back into the natural ...
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... thought I should find room enough to express , as it was my plan to do , the popular feeling and opinion of the time . For the names of two of my characters , since I have received some remon- strances from very worthy persons who ...
... thought I should find room enough to express , as it was my plan to do , the popular feeling and opinion of the time . For the names of two of my characters , since I have received some remon- strances from very worthy persons who ...
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... thought as monkish Latin . That we should all be made to talk like books is the danger with which we are threatened by the Universal Schoolmaster , who does his best to enslave the minds and memories of his victims to what he esteems ...
... thought as monkish Latin . That we should all be made to talk like books is the danger with which we are threatened by the Universal Schoolmaster , who does his best to enslave the minds and memories of his victims to what he esteems ...
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... thought , that the swan full brought ( or , to de - Saxonize it a little , what the goose conceived , that the swan achieved ) ; and it may well be that the life , invention , and vigor shown by our popular speech , and the freedom with ...
... thought , that the swan full brought ( or , to de - Saxonize it a little , what the goose conceived , that the swan achieved ) ; and it may well be that the life , invention , and vigor shown by our popular speech , and the freedom with ...
Seite xvii
... thought , and not in the word or the way of pronouncing it . Modern French , the most polite of languages , is barbarously vulgar if compared with the Latin out of which it has been cor- rupted , or even with Italian . There is a wider ...
... thought , and not in the word or the way of pronouncing it . Modern French , the most polite of languages , is barbarously vulgar if compared with the Latin out of which it has been cor- rupted , or even with Italian . There is a wider ...
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