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... knew , by savages and wild beasts , much more real and dangerous than the hobgob- lins of their ancestors . The population , in proportion to its numbers , was very widely distributed . It was not collected in groups , after the fashion ...
... knew , by savages and wild beasts , much more real and dangerous than the hobgob- lins of their ancestors . The population , in proportion to its numbers , was very widely distributed . It was not collected in groups , after the fashion ...
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... knew that they had plenty to eat and drink , and a herd of people to wait upon them and cultivate their land , as well as obliging London merchants always ready to furnish every luxury in return for the mortgage of a crop or an estate ...
... knew that they had plenty to eat and drink , and a herd of people to wait upon them and cultivate their land , as well as obliging London merchants always ready to furnish every luxury in return for the mortgage of a crop or an estate ...
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... volumes , chiefly of a devotional character , her favorite appar ently being Hale's " Moral and Divine Contempla- tions . " She evidently knew no language but her own , and her spelling was extremely bad even in 38 GEORGE WASHINGTON .
... volumes , chiefly of a devotional character , her favorite appar ently being Hale's " Moral and Divine Contempla- tions . " She evidently knew no language but her own , and her spelling was extremely bad even in 38 GEORGE WASHINGTON .
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... knew very well what he was talking about , and he certainly wrote a very sensible letter . A bold , adventurous boy , eager to earn his living and make his way in the world , would , like many others before him , look longingly to the ...
... knew very well what he was talking about , and he certainly wrote a very sensible letter . A bold , adventurous boy , eager to earn his living and make his way in the world , would , like many others before him , look longingly to the ...
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... knew nothing of war or its necessities . Unaccus- tomed to the large affairs into which they were suddenly plunged , they displayed a narrow and provincial spirit . Keenly alive to their own rights and privileges , they were more ...
... knew nothing of war or its necessities . Unaccus- tomed to the large affairs into which they were suddenly plunged , they displayed a narrow and provincial spirit . Keenly alive to their own rights and privileges , they were more ...
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