Chambers's Repository of Instructive and Amusing TractsWilliam and Robert Chambers, 1854 |
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... Christianity among the native Indians ; and with this view the most liberal provision was made for a numerous staff of missionaries , who accompanied the first settlers to the new colony . Fortune , however , did not second the ...
... Christianity among the native Indians ; and with this view the most liberal provision was made for a numerous staff of missionaries , who accompanied the first settlers to the new colony . Fortune , however , did not second the ...
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... Christian name . He had his harem of Indian beauties , and his troop of half - breed children ; nor was there ever wanting a louting train of Indians hanging about the establishment , eating and drinking at his expense in the intervals ...
... Christian name . He had his harem of Indian beauties , and his troop of half - breed children ; nor was there ever wanting a louting train of Indians hanging about the establishment , eating and drinking at his expense in the intervals ...
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... Christian prince or state , ' it was not unreasonably argued by the French , that it carried on its face its own abrogation . In reply to this objection , it was stoutly maintained that the country around Hudson's Bay formed no part of ...
... Christian prince or state , ' it was not unreasonably argued by the French , that it carried on its face its own abrogation . In reply to this objection , it was stoutly maintained that the country around Hudson's Bay formed no part of ...
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... Christianity or education : he is still roaming about his forests and his lakes , shivering naked that we may be warmly clad , dying by starvation that the cup of our luxury may be filled ! Happily , there are still extensive tracts ...
... Christianity or education : he is still roaming about his forests and his lakes , shivering naked that we may be warmly clad , dying by starvation that the cup of our luxury may be filled ! Happily , there are still extensive tracts ...
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... Christian world , and a scene of ecclesiastical magnificence . On the top of a low hill within the verge of the city , the palace of the popes was erected , and the remains of it are usually visited by tourists in their passage down the ...
... Christian world , and a scene of ecclesiastical magnificence . On the top of a low hill within the verge of the city , the palace of the popes was erected , and the remains of it are usually visited by tourists in their passage down the ...
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