Statistics for occurrence #1 of “New England” in chapter 3, page 45 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature:
...iend Mason, two years before the Declaration of Independence, that there would one day be a Thucydides in Boston and a Xenophon at New York.
Unfortunately a different influence came in the way. In New England , whence much of this intellectual work had proceeded, the prevailing party among
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