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While yet unknown, imagination invested this continent with proverbial magnificence.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “While yet unknown, imagination invested this continent with proverbial magnificence.”
Editor's note · Context
Sumner suggests that before America was known, it was imagined as a land of great potential.
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