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" No State, in the European sense of the word, and indeed barely a specific national name. No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army... "
The Comparative Approach to American History - Page 6
edited by - 1997 - 384 pages
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Ohio Educational Monthly, Volume 32

1883 - 642 pages
...are ahsent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left. No state, in the European sense of the word, and indeed...gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages, nor ivied ruins, no cathedrals, nor abbeys,...
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The Ohio Educational Monthly and the National Teacher: A Journal ..., Volume 32

1883 - 748 pages
...are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left. No state, in the European sense of the word, and indeed...gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages, nor ivied ruins, no cathedrals, nor abbeys,...
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English Men of Letters, Volume 13

John Morley - 1894 - 702 pages
...are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left. No State, in the European sense of the word, and indeed...gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages, nor ivied rums ; no cathedrals, nor abbeys,...
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American Prose Masters: Cooper, Hawthorne, Emerson, Poe, Lowell, Henry James

William Crary Brownell - 1909 - 572 pages
...the romancer's point of view with the explicitness of the dilettante dwelling on the disagreeable: No State in the European sense of the word, and indeed...nor old country houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched homes, nor ivied ruins ; no cathedrals, nor abbeys, nor little Norman churches; no great universities...
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Henry James

Rebecca West - 1916 - 138 pages
...which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder what was left. No State, in the European sense of the word, and indeed...sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy. ..." There follows a long list, so long as to provoke the " natural remark . . . that if these things...
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The Life of Joel Chandler Harris: From Obscurity in Boyhood to Fame in Early ...

Robert Lemuel Wiggins - 1918 - 470 pages
...previous essays] to English readers by enumerating the surroundings that the American lacked. He had no sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no Church, no clergy, no diplomatic service, no palaces, no castles, no manors, no cathedrals, no abbeys. All these things and...
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The Pilgrimage of Henry James

Van Wyck Brooks - 1925 - 196 pages
...are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left. No State, in the European sense of the word, and indeed...aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic serviee, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages,...
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Mammonart: An Essay in Economic Interpretation

Upton Sinclair - 1925 - 412 pages
...say, "savour" each phrase, realizing the mass of content it has to the aesthetically sensitive mind : No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy,...service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, no manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages, nor ivied ruins ; no cathedrals,...
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The Pilgrimage of Henry James

Van Wyck Brooks - 1925 - 186 pages
...are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left. No State, in the European sense of the word, and indeed...gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages, nor ivied ruins; no cathedrals, nor abbeys,...
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The American Novel To-day: A Social and Psychological Study

RĂ©gis Michaud - 1928 - 320 pages
...are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left. No State, in the European sense of the word, and indeed,...service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, no manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages, nor ivied ruins ; no cathedrals,...
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