Old-world Questions and New-world AnswersK. Paul, Trench & Company, 1885 - 369 pages |
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... thousand miles of mountain , desert , river , prairie , cultivation and forest . During all that time he passes rude camps , remote homesteads , farming villages , mushroom towns and settled cities , the homes of miners , ranchmen , pig ...
... thousand miles of mountain , desert , river , prairie , cultivation and forest . During all that time he passes rude camps , remote homesteads , farming villages , mushroom towns and settled cities , the homes of miners , ranchmen , pig ...
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... thousands , and these , when the hand of the persecutor fell too heavily , fled over sea to Holland . One such body of poor Lincolnshire " Inde- pendents " left England in 1607 , under the leadership of their minister , Mr. Robinson , a ...
... thousands , and these , when the hand of the persecutor fell too heavily , fled over sea to Holland . One such body of poor Lincolnshire " Inde- pendents " left England in 1607 , under the leadership of their minister , Mr. Robinson , a ...
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... thousand such as I have . " The high character of the Leyden refugees being well known , the Virginian Company gave a warm welcome to their proposal ; but the king , on being petitioned , refused to grant them any public recognition of ...
... thousand such as I have . " The high character of the Leyden refugees being well known , the Virginian Company gave a warm welcome to their proposal ; but the king , on being petitioned , refused to grant them any public recognition of ...
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... refugees increased from hundreds to thousands . Nor were they adventurers , bankrupts and criminals , like the earlier colonists of the South ; but always respectable , often highly educated , 6 AMERICANS AND AMERICANS .
... refugees increased from hundreds to thousands . Nor were they adventurers , bankrupts and criminals , like the earlier colonists of the South ; but always respectable , often highly educated , 6 AMERICANS AND AMERICANS .
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... 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 continent of ...
... 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 continent of ...
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