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The common faults of American ...

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

James Fenimore Cooper 136 quotes

What will the axemen do, when ...

What will the axemen do, when they have cut their way from sea to sea?

James Fenimore Cooper 136 quotes

Property is desirable as the g...

Property is desirable as the ground work of moral independence, as a means of improving the faculties, and of doing good to others, and as the agent in all that distinguishes the civilized man from the savage.

James Fenimore Cooper 136 quotes

Aristocracy: A combination of ...

Aristocracy: A combination of many powerful men, for the purpose of maintaining their own particular interests. It is consequently a concentration of all the most effective parts of a community for a given end, hence its energy, efficiency and success.

James Fenimore Cooper 136 quotes

These families, you know, are ...

These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.

James Fenimore Cooper 136 quotes

We can all perceive the differ...

We can all perceive the difference between ourselves and our inferiors, but when it comes to a question of the difference between us and our superiors we fail to appreciate merits of which we have no proper conceptions.

James Fenimore Cooper 136 quotes

The sun had not risen, but the...

The sun had not risen, but the vault of heaven was rich with the winning, softness that 'brings and shuts the day,' while the whole air was filled with the carols of birds, the hymns of the feathered tribe.

James Fenimore Cooper 136 quotes

Hope is the most treacherous o...

Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.

James Fenimore Cooper 136 quotes

It was a feature peculiar to t...

It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered before the adverse hosts could meet. A wide and apparently an impervious boundary of forests severed the possessions of the hostile provinces of France and England. The hardy colonist, and the trained European who fought at his side, frequently expended months in struggling against the rapids of the streams, or in effecting the rugged passes of the mountains, in quest of an opportunity to

James Fenimore Cooper 136 quotes

The sublimity connected with v...

The sublimity connected with vastness, is familiar to every eye.

James Fenimore Cooper 136 quotes

A single glance at the map wil...

A single glance at the map will make the reader acquainted with the position of the eastern coast of the island of Great Britain, as connected with the shores of the opposite continent.

James Fenimore Cooper 136 quotes

Near the centre of that State ...

Near the centre of that State of New York lies an extensive district of country, whose surface is a succession of hills and dales, or, to speak with greater deference to geographical definitions, of mountains and valleys.

James Fenimore Cooper 136 quotes

Much was said and written, at ...

Much was said and written, at the time, concerning the policy of adding the vast regions of Louisiana, to the already immense, and but half-tenanted territories of the United-States.

James Fenimore Cooper 136 quotes

No one, who is familiar with t...

No one, who is familiar with the bustle and activity of an American commercial town, would recognise, in the repose which now reigns in the ancient mart of Rhode Island, a place that, in its day, has been ranked amongst the most important ports along the whole line of our extended coast.

James Fenimore Cooper 136 quotes

Death is appalling to those of...

Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.

James Fenimore Cooper 136 quotes

A soul,--a spark of the never-...

A soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth.

James Fenimore Cooper 136 quotes

No star seemed less than what ...

No star seemed less than what science has taught us that it is.

James Fenimore Cooper 136 quotes

Superstition is a quality that...

Superstition is a quality that seems indigenous to the ocean.

James Fenimore Cooper 136 quotes

How easy it is for generous se...

How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness, and to exhibit to the world a man who was great in all the minor attributes of character, but who was found wanting when it became necessary to prove how much principle is superior to policy.

James Fenimore Cooper 136 quotes

An interesting fiction... howe...

An interesting fiction... however paradoxical the assertion may appear... addresses our love of truth- not the mere love of facts expressed by true names and dates, but the love of that higher truth, the truth of nature and principals, which is a primitive law of the human mind.

James Fenimore Cooper 136 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....