Old-world Questions and New-world AnswersK. Paul, Trench & Company, 1885 - 369 pages |
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... , were pushed back before the advance of a new nation , English in its origin , language and laws , but , above all , English in its devotion to the Bible . The one home of this people was , for generations 3 AMERICANS AND AMERICANS .
... , were pushed back before the advance of a new nation , English in its origin , language and laws , but , above all , English in its devotion to the Bible . The one home of this people was , for generations 3 AMERICANS AND AMERICANS .
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... origin . The drift overlies azoic gneisses , huge shoulders of which rise above a plain of arable soil , just as islands rise from a sea . Where the primitive rock is very thinly covered with earth , there occur patches of forest trees ...
... origin . The drift overlies azoic gneisses , huge shoulders of which rise above a plain of arable soil , just as islands rise from a sea . Where the primitive rock is very thinly covered with earth , there occur patches of forest trees ...
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... origin to the introduction of the Howe pin - machine . This has already created a demand for brass wire , which could not be met , except by importation , there being little practical skill in wire- drawing available in America at that ...
... origin to the introduction of the Howe pin - machine . This has already created a demand for brass wire , which could not be met , except by importation , there being little practical skill in wire- drawing available in America at that ...
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... origin and history have already been sketched , had long made it easy for people of moderate means to carry the time in their pockets , when it occurred to some of the long- sighted manufacturers of the Naugatuck valley that a good ...
... origin and history have already been sketched , had long made it easy for people of moderate means to carry the time in their pockets , when it occurred to some of the long- sighted manufacturers of the Naugatuck valley that a good ...
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... origin . This feeling , however , was not absolutely universal , even at the period in question . More than half a century ago , an octoge- narian New Englander , one of whose ancestors had been concerned , even to the employment of ...
... origin . This feeling , however , was not absolutely universal , even at the period in question . More than half a century ago , an octoge- narian New Englander , one of whose ancestors had been concerned , even to the employment of ...
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