Southern Quarterly Review, Volume 22, Part 6Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, James Henley Thornwell, William Gilmore Simms Wiley & Putnam, 1852 |
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... historian , so far from being its exponent , may be its adversary . We are to find it illustrated only in the pages of the historian who , from the height of a remote period , laying aside all personal and political prejudices , calmly ...
... historian , so far from being its exponent , may be its adversary . We are to find it illustrated only in the pages of the historian who , from the height of a remote period , laying aside all personal and political prejudices , calmly ...
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... historian must find much in his task to charm , while it occupies the highest powers of his mind . The survey , from some elevated point , of a wide ex- panse of natural scenery , combining the magnificence of mountain ranges , the ...
... historian must find much in his task to charm , while it occupies the highest powers of his mind . The survey , from some elevated point , of a wide ex- panse of natural scenery , combining the magnificence of mountain ranges , the ...
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... historians who wrote at a period when the chronicles were unavailable to their use , except in particular localities ... historian properly records it . No region has suffered more injustice from such imperfect chronicles than South ...
... historians who wrote at a period when the chronicles were unavailable to their use , except in particular localities ... historian properly records it . No region has suffered more injustice from such imperfect chronicles than South ...
Contents
BATTLE OF EL MOLINO DEL REY 281 | 23 |
INSTRUCTION IN SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES 460 | 203 |
KOSSUTH AND INTERVENTION | 221 |
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