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... England and France to a simple Virginian gentleman who had never left his own country , and who when he died held no other office than the titular command of a provisional army . Yet although these marks of respect from foreign nations ...
... England and France to a simple Virginian gentleman who had never left his own country , and who when he died held no other office than the titular command of a provisional army . Yet although these marks of respect from foreign nations ...
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... England to find a desirable obscurity in the new world , to divines of real learning and gen- uine piety , who were the supporters of the college , and who would have been a credit to any society . These last , however , were lamentably ...
... England to find a desirable obscurity in the new world , to divines of real learning and gen- uine piety , who were the supporters of the college , and who would have been a credit to any society . These last , however , were lamentably ...
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... England . The sons who stayed at home sometimes gathered a little learning from the clergyman of the parish , or received a fair education at the College of Wil- liam and Mary , but very many did not have even so much as this . There ...
... England . The sons who stayed at home sometimes gathered a little learning from the clergyman of the parish , or received a fair education at the College of Wil- liam and Mary , but very many did not have even so much as this . There ...
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... England , all his relations at Castlewood regarded the hand- some young fellow as a prince , with his acres and his slaves . It was a natural and pleasing delusion , born of the possession of land and serfs , to which the Virginians ...
... England , all his relations at Castlewood regarded the hand- some young fellow as a prince , with his acres and his slaves . It was a natural and pleasing delusion , born of the possession of land and serfs , to which the Virginians ...
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... England , but whether from Lancashire or Yorkshire , or one still more northerly , he could not tell . Sir Isaac was not thoroughly satisfied with the correctness of his own work , but presently Baker took it up in his history of ...
... England , but whether from Lancashire or Yorkshire , or one still more northerly , he could not tell . Sir Isaac was not thoroughly satisfied with the correctness of his own work , but presently Baker took it up in his history of ...
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