America has been called
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America has been called a proud and
arrogant.—It may be, but she does not show i[cut away]
in her criticisms or ^drama or literature.— ^It is indirect, and therefore more effective Day by day and hou[cut away]
by hour, in [illegible] tragedy and comedy, in picture and
print, in every eimportation of art and literature, ^letters,
she she submits to one ceaseless steady stretch flow of
discrepancy and one supercilious and ceaseless [cut away]
Many of The eleves of this school are graceful
talented school are numerous both in Great
[cut away]tain and America, yet we shall speak of their
[cut away]er as the best way of speaking of them.
His eleves are perhaps more numerous in New York,
in Cincinnati and Charleston than they are in other
cities He is the poet of the highly polished
graceful and talented writer.—He is the
[cut away]artificial phases of modern societ[cut away]