Old-world Questions and New-world AnswersK. Paul, Trench & Company, 1885 - 369 pages |
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... scarcely trifling with the average English reader to inquire whom we may properly call Americans and where they are to be found . The act of Elizabeth which , three centuries ago , opened the Bible for the first time to the English 2 ...
... scarcely trifling with the average English reader to inquire whom we may properly call Americans and where they are to be found . The act of Elizabeth which , three centuries ago , opened the Bible for the first time to the English 2 ...
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... scarcely begun to rise . At that time there was hardly a name in New England which was not English , and its people were , perhaps , more typical Anglo - Saxons than those of the mother country itself . Of intermixture between the ...
... scarcely begun to rise . At that time there was hardly a name in New England which was not English , and its people were , perhaps , more typical Anglo - Saxons than those of the mother country itself . Of intermixture between the ...
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... scarcely a tempting holiday programme . Most people , indeed , prefer to visit work- shops and workmen vicariously , care nothing for the companionship and conversation of labour and readily delegate to volunteers the distasteful ...
... scarcely a tempting holiday programme . Most people , indeed , prefer to visit work- shops and workmen vicariously , care nothing for the companionship and conversation of labour and readily delegate to volunteers the distasteful ...
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... scarcely find sustenance in the crevices to which they cling . Saving the forest , the aspect of the country is essentially English . Small fields are divided from one another by walls built of the boulders picked from the soil . Pretty ...
... scarcely find sustenance in the crevices to which they cling . Saving the forest , the aspect of the country is essentially English . Small fields are divided from one another by walls built of the boulders picked from the soil . Pretty ...
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... scarcely knew in the distance whether they were factories or castles - lined the beautiful curve of the river , and shone , rosy red , in the sunlight , through pearly morning mist . Above the latter , which lay low on the water , rose ...
... scarcely knew in the distance whether they were factories or castles - lined the beautiful curve of the river , and shone , rosy red , in the sunlight , through pearly morning mist . Above the latter , which lay low on the water , rose ...
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