Old-world Questions and New-world AnswersK. Paul, Trench & Company, 1885 - 369 pages |
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... become acquainted with a heterogeneous popula- tion of English , Irish , German , Scandinavian and Italian birth , to say nothing of Negroes and Chinese , whom we collectively call Americans , although they are only one people in a ...
... become acquainted with a heterogeneous popula- tion of English , Irish , German , Scandinavian and Italian birth , to say nothing of Negroes and Chinese , whom we collectively call Americans , although they are only one people in a ...
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... become united under the name of the colony of Massachusetts , the " Country of Blue Hills . " Thereafter , for more than a hundred and fifty years , these Englishmen of Englishmen remained without any accession to their numbers , except ...
... become united under the name of the colony of Massachusetts , the " Country of Blue Hills . " Thereafter , for more than a hundred and fifty years , these Englishmen of Englishmen remained without any accession to their numbers , except ...
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... becoming instantly converted into a shapeless heap of debris . We found a brick chimney , lying on the ground in fragments , at least fifty yards distant from the dwelling to which it had belonged . The stoutest beams were shattered ...
... becoming instantly converted into a shapeless heap of debris . We found a brick chimney , lying on the ground in fragments , at least fifty yards distant from the dwelling to which it had belonged . The stoutest beams were shattered ...
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... , what I hope will become clear when we come to discuss the tariff by - and- by , that American rates of wages are determined by agriculture instead of manufacture , by free trade anà not AMONG THE BERKSHIRE HILLS . 69.
... , what I hope will become clear when we come to discuss the tariff by - and- by , that American rates of wages are determined by agriculture instead of manufacture , by free trade anà not AMONG THE BERKSHIRE HILLS . 69.
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... become a passion . Every man investigates his ancestry and hundreds of pedigrees have been printed for private circulation . Some of these are works of extraordinary extent and completeness , the most remarkable of them all being a ...
... become a passion . Every man investigates his ancestry and hundreds of pedigrees have been printed for private circulation . Some of these are works of extraordinary extent and completeness , the most remarkable of them all being a ...
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