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... numbers , was very widely distributed . It was not collected in groups , after the fashion with which we are now familiar , for then there were no cities or towns in Virginia . The only place which could pretend to either name was ...
... numbers , was very widely distributed . It was not collected in groups , after the fashion with which we are now familiar , for then there were no cities or towns in Virginia . The only place which could pretend to either name was ...
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... numbers , and yet capable of such an outburst of ability and force . They were of sound English stock , with a slight admixture of the Huguenot , the best blood of France ; and although for a century and a half they had seemed to stag ...
... numbers , and yet capable of such an outburst of ability and force . They were of sound English stock , with a slight admixture of the Huguenot , the best blood of France ; and although for a century and a half they had seemed to stag ...
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... number of 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 ...
... number of 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 ...
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... number , as to etiquette and behavior , carefully written out . It has always been supposed that these rules were copied , but it was reserved apparently for the storms of a mighty civil war to lay bare what may have been , if not the ...
... number , as to etiquette and behavior , carefully written out . It has always been supposed that these rules were copied , but it was reserved apparently for the storms of a mighty civil war to lay bare what may have been , if not the ...
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... numbers had swept down upon Trent's little party , captured their fort , and sent them packing back to Virginia . Washington took this to be war , and determined at once to march against the enemy . Having impressed from the inhabitants ...
... numbers had swept down upon Trent's little party , captured their fort , and sent them packing back to Virginia . Washington took this to be war , and determined at once to march against the enemy . Having impressed from the inhabitants ...
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