Old-world Questions and New-world AnswersK. Paul, Trench & Company, 1885 - 369 pages |
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... streams turn a thousand mills , and whose prosperous towns , happy homes and bright people suggest many a grave question to the least thoughtful Briton . For the average man , with time on his hands , money in his pocket and the great ...
... streams turn a thousand mills , and whose prosperous towns , happy homes and bright people suggest many a grave question to the least thoughtful Briton . For the average man , with time on his hands , money in his pocket and the great ...
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... stream . The Housatonic , one of the most important of these industrial rivers , flows for a hundred miles of its course between the picturesque wooded flanks of the Green Mountain and Taconic ranges , before de- bouching into the Sound ...
... stream . The Housatonic , one of the most important of these industrial rivers , flows for a hundred miles of its course between the picturesque wooded flanks of the Green Mountain and Taconic ranges , before de- bouching into the Sound ...
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... streams sweep majestically around high hills which are everywhere covered with forest , leafless and grey as yet , but ... stream of considerable volume , which , but for the intervention of man , would seek the sea in a series of rapids ...
... streams sweep majestically around high hills which are everywhere covered with forest , leafless and grey as yet , but ... stream of considerable volume , which , but for the intervention of man , would seek the sea in a series of rapids ...
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... stream , being easily controllable , while its flow of water is abundant , offered great advantages to the early makers of wooden clocks , who may be called the pioneers of manufacture in America . They established small water - wheels ...
... stream , being easily controllable , while its flow of water is abundant , offered great advantages to the early makers of wooden clocks , who may be called the pioneers of manufacture in America . They established small water - wheels ...
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... stream of artisans of both sexes , to the " Hodgkiss House , " in search of refresh- ment . Married operatives in America usually live in their own houses , while unmarried labour generally " rooms " in tenement houses and " boards " in ...
... stream of artisans of both sexes , to the " Hodgkiss House , " in search of refresh- ment . Married operatives in America usually live in their own houses , while unmarried labour generally " rooms " in tenement houses and " boards " in ...
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