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... nature of slavery in our colonies : it exists , and its existence , in any form , is a sufficient argument for its extinction : such at least is the doctrine of the Anti - Slavery Society , and stated by them to be the general feeling ...
... nature of slavery in our colonies : it exists , and its existence , in any form , is a sufficient argument for its extinction : such at least is the doctrine of the Anti - Slavery Society , and stated by them to be the general feeling ...
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... nature , especially in her woodland recesses , as that picturesque people , who are , so to say , the wild genus - the pheasants and roebucks of the human race . Sometimes , indeed , we used to see a gipsy procession passing along the ...
... nature , especially in her woodland recesses , as that picturesque people , who are , so to say , the wild genus - the pheasants and roebucks of the human race . Sometimes , indeed , we used to see a gipsy procession passing along the ...
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... natural beauty , which those who live with nature in the fields are seldom totally without ; perhaps because the neighbourhood of the coppices , and of the deserted hall , was favourable to the acquisition of game , and of the little ...
... natural beauty , which those who live with nature in the fields are seldom totally without ; perhaps because the neighbourhood of the coppices , and of the deserted hall , was favourable to the acquisition of game , and of the little ...
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... nature disqualified from com- manding armies , writing tragedies , and dressing a dinner . This subject is , we understand , to be discussed at some of our most eminent philo- sophical societies ; whether at the cyder - cellar or the co ...
... nature disqualified from com- manding armies , writing tragedies , and dressing a dinner . This subject is , we understand , to be discussed at some of our most eminent philo- sophical societies ; whether at the cyder - cellar or the co ...
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... nature , the sphere of the drama , grows ( it is alleged ) more extensive and diversified , more obvious and interesting ; and from this it is thought not unfair to conclude , that dramatic poetry should become every day less difficult ...
... nature , the sphere of the drama , grows ( it is alleged ) more extensive and diversified , more obvious and interesting ; and from this it is thought not unfair to conclude , that dramatic poetry should become every day less difficult ...
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