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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... thought of the world , and what the world thought of him . This kind of biography , when charac- terized by simplicity and truth , has more charms for the multitude than a pompous history of the intrigues of courts , the negotiations of ...
... thought of the world , and what the world thought of him . This kind of biography , when charac- terized by simplicity and truth , has more charms for the multitude than a pompous history of the intrigues of courts , the negotiations of ...
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... thought , not infrequently , with their nightly visitations ; and I soothed my mind to tranquillity with the fancied harmony of my verse . Ridentur mala qui componunt carmina : verum Gaudent scribentes , et se venerantur , et ultro , Si ...
... thought , not infrequently , with their nightly visitations ; and I soothed my mind to tranquillity with the fancied harmony of my verse . Ridentur mala qui componunt carmina : verum Gaudent scribentes , et se venerantur , et ultro , Si ...
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... thought he could relish some chicken broth . We had scarcely been out a week , when we experienced a gale of wind that was not less disastrous than tre- mendous . A sea which broke over the quarter washed a hencoop from its lashing ...
... thought he could relish some chicken broth . We had scarcely been out a week , when we experienced a gale of wind that was not less disastrous than tre- mendous . A sea which broke over the quarter washed a hencoop from its lashing ...
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... thought she was going to founder . Her cargo , which consisted of mill stones and old iron , made her strain so with rolling , that incessant pumping could hardly keep her free . She seemed to be fitted out by the parish ; there was not ...
... thought she was going to founder . Her cargo , which consisted of mill stones and old iron , made her strain so with rolling , that incessant pumping could hardly keep her free . She seemed to be fitted out by the parish ; there was not ...
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... thought the motto to his badge of Omnia reliquit servare Rempublicam , was not very appropriate ; for it is notorious that few Americans had much to leave when they accepted commissions in the army . Victor ad aratrum redit would have ...
... thought the motto to his badge of Omnia reliquit servare Rempublicam , was not very appropriate ; for it is notorious that few Americans had much to leave when they accepted commissions in the army . Victor ad aratrum redit would have ...
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