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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.) 18 0 Browse Search
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 14 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 12 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life 10 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays 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.) 10 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises 8 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: November 5, 1860., [Electronic resource] 8 4 Browse Search
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches 8 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 6 0 Browse Search
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temper of the Rump. This miserable adventurer, Baker, is almost as implacable as his old master, George the Third, who was determined never to surrender his dominion in America, but who found reason in the course of time to adopt a wiser resolution. Yet, after all, what was gained by throwing off the yoke of a royal tyrant, if it is to be succeeded by the worse despotism of a vulgar military despotism? Who would not rather be ruled by the gentleman George than by the loafer Baker? Thackeray once said that an English snob was the most irredeemable of all snobs, and it is equally true that an English radical is the most arbitrary of all despots. No country in the world has a nobler class of gentlemen and patriots than the English aristocracy. But, Heaven deliver us from such specimens of vulgarity, audacity and arrogance as sometimes find their way to these shores, and of which this adventurer Baker, who has crawled into the chamber once occupied by a Webster, a Clay and a Ca