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| When he was only six, his famous namesake patted him on the head. |
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| Her experience as a prisoner broke her health and the record she wrote of it set off a flurry of copy-cat works which only served to underine relations with the Native Americans. |
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| He grienved to see his beloved "city on a hill" give way to the realities of the practical New World. |
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| He counted his role as Father of the University of Virgina as one of his three greatest accomplishments. |
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| An unusually handsome man. |
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| He believed that the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. |
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| Although the world he wrote of in his 759 poem about winter was full of hardships, he, "like many people...found in his past a kind of benediction." |
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| As a doctor, he was "grateful for small fevers". |
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| Dubbed "the Happy Puritan", this father of fourtenn children was best knows in his own time as the faithful pastor of a small farming willage, where he served for some fifty-eight years. |
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| Had he known his future wife was watching, this newcomer to Philadelphia might not have tucked great puffy rolls of bread under his arms. |
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| He, by self-admission, often neglected his prayers, but this man of exceptional intellect and great wit led a cultured and busy life in the Virginia colonies and in London. His 3,600 volume library attests to that. |
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| Called a traitor in England and an outcast in America, he was denied burial in consecrated ground, but he is given credit for helping inspire the colonies during the American Revolution. |
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| In her journal, she preserves for us a very different picture of her minister father than his sermons provide us. |
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| She would have preferred to write blood curdling mysteries but reluctantly gave in to those commercially successful Little Women. |
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| He was kidnapped and held in slavery by his own people before being sent off on a hostile journey through the Middle Passage. |
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| As was true of his famous narrator, a whaling ship was his Harvard and his Yale. |
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| "He seems to have been more than any single man: a harmonious human multitude." |
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| Our text says that today, his poems are not read as the spiritual counsels they were meant to be, which goes to show that our text, like the best friend in number one, somtimes does not have a clue. |
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Even today, most school children know his:
"Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere." |
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| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| This man, whose name is synonymous with the Purtian God, spent many of the final years of his life in exile in a remote and raw Mochian community. Ironically when he was "rescued" and given a prestigious position, he died of an experimental smallpox inoculation. |
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| He had the actor's trick of making his body seem to lift up with climactic passages in his speeches, "as if he could add cubits by wanting to..." |
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| He referred to his suprising modern home at Sunnyside as his "three cornered hat". |
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| Although she was a very well educated woman, she used what "homspun cloth" she had to write her works and is remembered not for Puritan oratory but for her works about her home and family. |
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| Although he was both a physician and a teacher of doctors, he also helped found The Atlantic Monthy and is remembered as "an aristocrat with the common touch, an artist with a passion for science." |
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| He was, according to a jealous Twain, everything but a poet. (Note: In our book, it actually says that it was Melville who said that, not Twain.) |
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| He defined the "Oversoul" that Jim Casey would struggle to articulate in the 20th century. |
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| He dimissed the European novel his wife was reading and said that he could write a better book. He went on to create the Leatherstocking Series, much loved not for literay greatness but for the sheer fun of their storytelling. |
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| His Ithica was circumscribed by a pond in a small New England town, but he was just as much of a wanderer as Ulysses. |
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| He felt that "This path is the only remembrance of me that will remain..." |
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