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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard)	73	3	Browse	Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature	56	4	Browse	Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.)	51	1	Browse	Search
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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1	43	1	Browse	Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones)	38	2	Browse	Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life	32	2	Browse	Search
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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, Review of Dr. Crosby's Calm view of Temperance (1881). (search)

prohibits the sale of flash literature in its cars, perhaps you expect to hear Dr. Crosby denounce that corporation as emasculating the virtues of their travellers and making them unmanly. Not at all. He approves it. It is only drink temptations that he considers good training for heroic men. You might suppose that Dr. Crosby would recommend to colleges to substitute, in their study of the literature of fiction, the works of Eugene Sue, Dumas, and Balzac, in the place of George Eliot, Walter Scott, and Jane Austen, since these last would afford no proof of a lad's ability to withstand the harm of pernicious novels. Oh, no! I assure you that is a mistake. Dr. Crosby confines the new discovery of fortifying virtue by steeping it in temptation wholly and exclusively to rum. Hannah More's demand of consistency, he thinks of no consequence whatever. But our movement is the delight of rumsellers and the great manufacturer of drunkards. How is it, then, that anxious and terror-str

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