Four Americans: Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, WhitmanYale review, 1919 - 90 sider |
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... thought him a theorist and doctrinaire imbued with the abstract notions of the French philosophical deists and democrats . Jefferson , he thought , knew nothing and cared nothing about mili- tary affairs . He let the army run down and ...
... thought him a theorist and doctrinaire imbued with the abstract notions of the French philosophical deists and democrats . Jefferson , he thought , knew nothing and cared nothing about mili- tary affairs . He let the army run down and ...
Side 13
... thought for its own sake ; the life of a dreamer or idealist ; a life like that of Coleridge , with his paralysis of will and abnormal activity of the speculative faculty , eternally spinning metaphysical cob- webs , doubtless seemed to ...
... thought for its own sake ; the life of a dreamer or idealist ; a life like that of Coleridge , with his paralysis of will and abnormal activity of the speculative faculty , eternally spinning metaphysical cob- webs , doubtless seemed to ...
Side 14
... thought and speech , a readiness to criticise work which the critic himself never tries to perform , an intellectual aloofness which will not accept contact with life's realities - all these are marks , not , as the possessor would fain ...
... thought and speech , a readiness to criticise work which the critic himself never tries to perform , an intellectual aloofness which will not accept contact with life's realities - all these are marks , not , as the possessor would fain ...
Side 21
... thought that he had no choice . Roosevelt's addresses , essays , editorials , and miscellaneous papers , which fill many volumes , are seldom literary in subject , and certainly not in manner . He was an effec- tive speaker and writer ...
... thought that he had no choice . Roosevelt's addresses , essays , editorials , and miscellaneous papers , which fill many volumes , are seldom literary in subject , and certainly not in manner . He was an effec- tive speaker and writer ...
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... thought ; and , in the peculiarly American form of it , a humility which inclines one to laugh at him- self . Impossible to fancy T. R. making the answer that Lincoln made to an applicant for office : " I haven't much influence with ...
... thought ; and , in the peculiarly American form of it , a humility which inclines one to laugh at him- self . Impossible to fancy T. R. making the answer that Lincoln made to an applicant for office : " I haven't much influence with ...
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