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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 110 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays 42 0 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.) 24 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 16 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.) 16 0 Browse Search
James Russell Lowell, Among my books 14 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: March 9, 1861., [Electronic resource] 14 0 Browse Search
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches 12 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 12 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: March 12, 1861., [Electronic resource] 12 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: August 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], General Hood Increases his army. (search)
ic and the other on the Pacific, he could take up the whole continent in his talons and soar away with it to the seventh heaven of liberty. Was Yankee going to give up a big country like that? I guess not. Then, above all, the big cotton crops, with a big nigger in the bale, the big commissions and the big commerce proceeding therefrom. Wonderful that all this love of bigness has never produced anything big but big fortunes and big luxury. It has never brought forth a big spies like Homer, or a big Coliseum like that where eighty thousand Romans witnessed the combats of the gladiators; or a big church like St. Peters; a big philosopher like Bacon; a big poet like Shakespeare; a big orator like Chatham; a big soldier like the "little Corsican." --But that is not the kind of bigness adapted to Yankee capacities. A mammoth ox or an overgrown prize-fighter, like the Goliath who went across the ocean to take the starch out of John Bull's collar, and came back in a very rumpled an