English Literature in Fact & Story: Being a Brief Account of Its Writers & Their Backgrounds, Matters Very Necessary to be Known by the Gentle Reader of Polite Letters. To which are Added for His Greater Edification Many Amusing & Famous Anecdotes and Much Other Illustrative Material with Maps, Charts, & PicturesCentury Company, 1929 - 505 pagina's |
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Pagina 254
... America . They still complain , and justly , of some of the provisions of our laws , which are not in agreement with the practices of most of the nations , but many Eng- lish authors reap their largest profits in this country ...
... America . They still complain , and justly , of some of the provisions of our laws , which are not in agreement with the practices of most of the nations , but many Eng- lish authors reap their largest profits in this country ...
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... America . III : 30-46 . It seems he had invested in an English company speculating in lands at the juncture of the Ohio and the Mississippi in southern Illinois . He found the land mostly under water ; naturally he was irritated . America ...
... America . III : 30-46 . It seems he had invested in an English company speculating in lands at the juncture of the Ohio and the Mississippi in southern Illinois . He found the land mostly under water ; naturally he was irritated . America ...
Pagina 378
... America . A Chicago paper described him thus : " He has harsh features , supercilious manners , parts his hair down the middle , wears a single eye - glass and ill- fitting clothes . " On the whole he found Americans as he had ex ...
... America . A Chicago paper described him thus : " He has harsh features , supercilious manners , parts his hair down the middle , wears a single eye - glass and ill- fitting clothes . " On the whole he found Americans as he had ex ...
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THE BACKGROUNDS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE | 3 |
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
Age of Prose In the South | 25 |
Copyright | |
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