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... thought upon the subject has solved the problem , so that even to state it is superfluous . Yet a brilliant writer , the latest historian of the American people , has said : " General Washington is known to us , and Presi- dent ...
... thought upon the subject has solved the problem , so that even to state it is superfluous . Yet a brilliant writer , the latest historian of the American people , has said : " General Washington is known to us , and Presi- dent ...
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... thought commended it to children both at home and at school , and , passing through edition after edition , its statements were widely spread , and it colored insensibly the ideas of hundreds of persons who never had heard even the name ...
... thought commended it to children both at home and at school , and , passing through edition after edition , its statements were widely spread , and it colored insensibly the ideas of hundreds of persons who never had heard even the name ...
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... thoughts , and who was in- formed throughout his being with a resistless will . The veil of his silence is not often lifted , and never intentionally , but now and then there is a glimpse behind it ; and in stray sentences and in little ...
... thoughts , and who was in- formed throughout his being with a resistless will . The veil of his silence is not often lifted , and never intentionally , but now and then there is a glimpse behind it ; and in stray sentences and in little ...
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... thought and sentiment and knowledge which are familiar to the dwellers in cities , and which have driven forward more rapidly than all else what we call civilization . Rare meetings for spe- cial objects with persons as solitary in ...
... thought and sentiment and knowledge which are familiar to the dwellers in cities , and which have driven forward more rapidly than all else what we call civilization . Rare meetings for spe- cial objects with persons as solitary in ...
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... they do not need , especially if the acquisition demands labor . The Virginian planter thought little and read less , and there were no learned professions to hold out golden prizes and stimulate the THE OLD DOMINION . 23.
... they do not need , especially if the acquisition demands labor . The Virginian planter thought little and read less , and there were no learned professions to hold out golden prizes and stimulate the THE OLD DOMINION . 23.
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