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... river . I have heard it said that most of the emigrants to the New England states came from the west of England , where many of their social peculiarities and much of their language are still to be traced , while the colonies farther ...
... river . I have heard it said that most of the emigrants to the New England states came from the west of England , where many of their social peculiarities and much of their language are still to be traced , while the colonies farther ...
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... River . Trinity Church I could hardly admire enough either ; for it appeared to me that it was large enough to contain all the church - people in the colony . * It was a venerable structure , which had then felt the heats of summer and ...
... River . Trinity Church I could hardly admire enough either ; for it appeared to me that it was large enough to contain all the church - people in the colony . * It was a venerable structure , which had then felt the heats of summer and ...
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... river ; but it had many respectable families in it , of that extraction , without alluding to such heavy people as the Van - Cortlands , Felipses , Beekmans , and two or three others of that stamp . Most of our important county families ...
... river ; but it had many respectable families in it , of that extraction , without alluding to such heavy people as the Van - Cortlands , Felipses , Beekmans , and two or three others of that stamp . Most of our important county families ...
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... river that is known to run into the Mississippi , a vast distance to the west . I knew very little then , nor do I ... river than I wished to know of it . We conversed as we walked ; and my companion , who knew the river much better than ...
... river that is known to run into the Mississippi , a vast distance to the west . I knew very little then , nor do I ... river than I wished to know of it . We conversed as we walked ; and my companion , who knew the river much better than ...
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... river - side ; " Look here , Corny , do you see yonder house , in the little bay below us , with the lawn that extends down to the water , and that noble orchard behind it ? " I saw the object to which Dirck alluded . It was a house ...
... river - side ; " Look here , Corny , do you see yonder house , in the little bay below us , with the lawn that extends down to the water , and that noble orchard behind it ? " I saw the object to which Dirck alluded . It was a house ...
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Page 193 - I with a new one : it is so well worth taking a journey for, that if the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain.
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Page 32 - Whereas the youth of this colony are found, by manifold experience, to be not inferior in their natural geniuses to, the youth of any other country in the world, therefore be it enacted,* 8cc.