Southern Literature from 1579-1895: A Comprehensive Review, with Copious Extracts and Criticisms for the Use of Schools and the General Reader |
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... studying and worthily understanding the life and litera- ture of our past , and in impressing them upon the minds of the rising generation , so as to infuse into the new forms now arising the best and purest and highest of the old forms ...
... studying and worthily understanding the life and litera- ture of our past , and in impressing them upon the minds of the rising generation , so as to infuse into the new forms now arising the best and purest and highest of the old forms ...
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... studied for some time in the Low Countries , visited the Court of France , and was chosen Fellow of the Royal Society . Thus eminently fitted for the service and ornament of his country , he was made receiver - general of his Majesty's ...
... studied for some time in the Low Countries , visited the Court of France , and was chosen Fellow of the Royal Society . Thus eminently fitted for the service and ornament of his country , he was made receiver - general of his Majesty's ...
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... studied man and nature from life very deeply and thoroughly . He attempted farming and merchandising for some years , then read law and at the age of twenty - four was admitted to the bar where his splendid powers had full scope . In ...
... studied man and nature from life very deeply and thoroughly . He attempted farming and merchandising for some years , then read law and at the age of twenty - four was admitted to the bar where his splendid powers had full scope . In ...
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... studied law , and in 1771 was appointed by the king privy - councillor for South Caro- lina . He espoused , however , the cause of the Revolution , with ardor , and was chosen president of the Council of Safety and of the Provincial ...
... studied law , and in 1771 was appointed by the king privy - councillor for South Caro- lina . He espoused , however , the cause of the Revolution , with ardor , and was chosen president of the Council of Safety and of the Provincial ...
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... studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania , and removed to Charleston , S. C. , for the practice of his profession . He soon acquired celebrity both as a physician and as a patriot in the Revo- lutionary struggles . He was a ...
... studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania , and removed to Charleston , S. C. , for the practice of his profession . He soon acquired celebrity both as a physician and as a patriot in the Revo- lutionary struggles . He was a ...
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