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The first American novel is called "The Power of Sympathy" and was written by William Hill Brown in 1789.
<span>Emerson's "Self-Reliance" is a work which strongly promotes his philosophy of individualism. ... Emerson, in the essay, discusses that self-trust is the means by which we discover "that divine idea which each of us represents."</span>
Rainsford had dug himself in when he was in France when a seconds delay meant death.