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... towns , with no means of communication except what was afforded by rivers and wood roads ; having no trades , no industries , no means of spreading knowledge , only one occu- pation , clumsily performed ; and living a quiet , monotonous ...
... towns , with no means of communication except what was afforded by rivers and wood roads ; having no trades , no industries , no means of spreading knowledge , only one occu- pation , clumsily performed ; and living a quiet , monotonous ...
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... towns in Virginia . The only place which could pretend to either name was Norfolk , the solitary seaport , which , with its six or seven thousand inhabitants , formed the most glaring exception that any rule solicitous of proof could ...
... towns in Virginia . The only place which could pretend to either name was Norfolk , the solitary seaport , which , with its six or seven thousand inhabitants , formed the most glaring exception that any rule solicitous of proof could ...
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... towns , but which in real- ity were merely the shadows of a name . The most populous consisted of a few houses inhabited by storekeepers and traders , some tobacco ware- houses , and a tavern , clustered about the church or court ...
... towns , but which in real- ity were merely the shadows of a name . The most populous consisted of a few houses inhabited by storekeepers and traders , some tobacco ware- houses , and a tavern , clustered about the church or court ...
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... bombast and platitudes , and this saved the book . The biography did not go , and was not intended to go , into the hands of the polite society of the great eastern towns . It was meant for the farmers , the 4A GEORGE WASHINGTON .
... bombast and platitudes , and this saved the book . The biography did not go , and was not intended to go , into the hands of the polite society of the great eastern towns . It was meant for the farmers , the 4A GEORGE WASHINGTON .
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Henry Cabot Lodge. towns . It was meant for the farmers , the pioneers , and the backwoodsmen of the country . It went into their homes , and passed with them beyond the Alleghanies and out to the plains and valleys of the great West ...
Henry Cabot Lodge. towns . It was meant for the farmers , the pioneers , and the backwoodsmen of the country . It went into their homes , and passed with them beyond the Alleghanies and out to the plains and valleys of the great West ...
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