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Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, a volume of original, historic and descriptive writings showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress (1901)

Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, A. J. Holman & co · leaf 238

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ar their tradi-tions like a chain; and, in canonizationof laws of taste, the creative laws aredepressed. Even in England we write under fixed conditions ; with the fear of critics before our eyes, we are allbound to cast our ideas into similar moulds, and the name of free thinkerhas grown to a term… … JOHN G. WHITTIEIl 218 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIX™ CENTURY but there is a loss in the consequent lack of spontaneity; and we may learnsomething from a literature that is ever ready for adventures. In Americathe love of uniformity gives place to impetuous impulses; the most extremesentiments are…

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