Travels of Four Years and a Half in the United States of America: During 1798, 1799, 1800, 1801, and 1802Holt, 1909 - 429 páginas |
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... become a producing man of letters . In the preface to one of his novels , ( First Settlers of Virginia , 1805 ) , the au- thor supplies information regarding his career , which no doubt after 1806 was that of a London journalist and ...
... become a producing man of letters . In the preface to one of his novels , ( First Settlers of Virginia , 1805 ) , the au- thor supplies information regarding his career , which no doubt after 1806 was that of a London journalist and ...
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... become a publisher . Of these some want taste , and others literature ; some incapable of observation , count with profound . gravity the number of miles from place to place ; and others , intent only upon feeding , supply a bill of ...
... become a publisher . Of these some want taste , and others literature ; some incapable of observation , count with profound . gravity the number of miles from place to place ; and others , intent only upon feeding , supply a bill of ...
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... becomes the historiographer of his own actions , he can scarcely avoid this error without de- generating into the opposite one of affected diffidence . I have often caught myself making my own panegyric ; the fact is indisputable ; yet ...
... becomes the historiographer of his own actions , he can scarcely avoid this error without de- generating into the opposite one of affected diffidence . I have often caught myself making my own panegyric ; the fact is indisputable ; yet ...
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... become the architect of my own fortune . Though on a kindred shore , I had not even an acquaintance to whom I could communicate my projects ; the letter had failed me that was to decide my fortune at one blow , and I found myself ...
... become the architect of my own fortune . Though on a kindred shore , I had not even an acquaintance to whom I could communicate my projects ; the letter had failed me that was to decide my fortune at one blow , and I found myself ...
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... become a Sceptic , and reject all belief in revelation . Before this period the Major was a constant attendant on the Established Church , but he now enlisted himself under the banners of the Infidel Palmer , who delivers lectures on ...
... become a Sceptic , and reject all belief in revelation . Before this period the Major was a constant attendant on the Established Church , but he now enlisted himself under the banners of the Infidel Palmer , who delivers lectures on ...
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