Southern Literature from 1579-1895: A Comprehensive Review, with Copious Extracts and Criticisms for the Use of Schools and the General Reader |
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... thing with a great deal of care and method , and those that have the advantages of education write very good hands , and prove good account- ants , which is most coveted , and , indeed , most necessary in these parts . The young men are ...
... thing with a great deal of care and method , and those that have the advantages of education write very good hands , and prove good account- ants , which is most coveted , and , indeed , most necessary in these parts . The young men are ...
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... thing with his own People , except raising the Mine and running the Iron , by which he had contracted his Expence very much . Nay , he believ'd that by his directions he cou'd bring sensible Negroes to perform those parts of the work ...
... thing with his own People , except raising the Mine and running the Iron , by which he had contracted his Expence very much . Nay , he believ'd that by his directions he cou'd bring sensible Negroes to perform those parts of the work ...
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... thing that has life . Not so much as a Zea- land Frog cou'd endure so Aguish a Situation . It had one Beauty , however , that delighted the Eye , tho ' at the Expense of all the other Senses ; the Moisture of the Soil preserves a ...
... thing that has life . Not so much as a Zea- land Frog cou'd endure so Aguish a Situation . It had one Beauty , however , that delighted the Eye , tho ' at the Expense of all the other Senses ; the Moisture of the Soil preserves a ...
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... thing of that Particular Nation . These Indians were heretofore very numerous and power- ful , making , within time of Memory , at least a Thousand Fighting Men . Their Habitation , before the War with 5 WILLIAM BYRD . 65 The Tuscarora ...
... thing of that Particular Nation . These Indians were heretofore very numerous and power- ful , making , within time of Memory , at least a Thousand Fighting Men . Their Habitation , before the War with 5 WILLIAM BYRD . 65 The Tuscarora ...
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... thing might be easily effected , the face of Ameri- can affairs was extremely gloomy . That I might have eigh- teen hours ' start before I was missed ; time enough to reach Margate and Ostend ; that it was believed there would be no ...
... thing might be easily effected , the face of Ameri- can affairs was extremely gloomy . That I might have eigh- teen hours ' start before I was missed ; time enough to reach Margate and Ostend ; that it was believed there would be no ...
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