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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.) 10 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 8 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: December 18, 1865., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899 4 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition. 4 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches 2 0 Browse Search
James Russell Lowell, Among my books 2 0 Browse Search
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing) 2 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: December 18, 1865., [Electronic resource], General Assembly of Virginia. (search)
The notion of wiping out the United States is not peculiar to Lamartine. It seems to be a pet with the French poets. Chateaubriand broached it nearly fifty years ago, when the Holy Alliance was all-powerful in Europe, and had kindly taken every nation's concerns into its own hands. Poets may be excused if concessions a little too flighty for realization sometimes break out, since they live in an imaginary world, and are not supposed to be very conversant with matters of fact. But on the former occasion Chateaubriand was not the only man who thought it would be convenient to get rid of the troublesome republic: Pozze dr Borgo, the grim Corsican Senator and Russian General and Counsellor, strenuously advised his master, Alexander I., to the same effect. The subject was even whispered at the Congress of Laybach; but it came to nothing. If the thing was to be done at all, then would have been the time to do it. It has been deferred until it is too late. The New York Time