Essays on American Literature, in Honor of Jay B. HubbellDuke University Press, 1967 - 350 من الصفحات A collection of critical essays examining numerous American authors and literary trends since colonial times. |
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الصفحة 155
... civilization ; the Indians of the Eastern tribes he visited were decimated by years of war and disease , their culture tainted or destroyed by too much contact with white society . Al- though he learned much from them , they did not ...
... civilization ; the Indians of the Eastern tribes he visited were decimated by years of war and disease , their culture tainted or destroyed by too much contact with white society . Al- though he learned much from them , they did not ...
الصفحة 159
... civilization , and that the advance of civilization into his wilderness was inevita- ble , was to put into different terms the later Darwinian view that the weak disappear before the strong , the ill - adapted before the better ...
... civilization , and that the advance of civilization into his wilderness was inevita- ble , was to put into different terms the later Darwinian view that the weak disappear before the strong , the ill - adapted before the better ...
الصفحة 161
... civilization . Indians " melted away , " he wrote , echoing Pontiac , " not because civilization destroyed them , but because their own ferocity and intractable in- dolence made it impossible that they should exist in its presence ...
... civilization . Indians " melted away , " he wrote , echoing Pontiac , " not because civilization destroyed them , but because their own ferocity and intractable in- dolence made it impossible that they should exist in its presence ...
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Howard Mumford Jones American Studies in Higher | 3 |
Ola Elizabeth Winslow SeventeenthCentury Prologue | 21 |
Theodore Hornberger Thomas Prince Minister | 30 |
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