Literature and Insurgency: Ten Studies in Racial Evolution: Mark Twain, Henry James, William Dean Howells, Frank Norris, David Graham Phillips, Stewart Edward White, Winston Churchill, Edith Wharton, Gertrude Atherton, and Robert W. ChambersM. Kennerley, 1914 - 480 pages |
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Page 31 - the largest capitals, with a string of shouting exclamation-points at the end of it; for it meant that a wreck or a rock was buried there, that could tear the life out of the strongest vessel that ever floated. " It is the faintest and simplest expression the water ever makes and the most hideous to
Page 30 - The face of the water became a wonderful book ... a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. " And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story
Page 179 - of its soul. We cannot say that our own as yet suffices us, but I believe that he who stands a hundred years hence where I am standing now, conscious that he speaks to the most powerful and prosperous community ever devised, or developed by man, will speak of
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Page 18 - sad pilgrimage, this pathetic drift between the eternities, is to look out and humbly live a pure and high and blameless life; and save that one microscopic atom in me that is truly me — the rest may land in Sheol and welcome for all I care.
Page 14 - the rest were slaves in fact but without the name; they imagined themselves men and freemen, and called themselves so. " The truth was the nation as a body was in the world for one object and one only, to grovel before king and Church and noble, to slave for them,
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