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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... tion an extraordinary repository , both as fact and by comparison , for when before have the begin- nings of a nation been journalized ? The impulse to the keeping of a day - book may be of several sorts , the purely business , the ...
... tion an extraordinary repository , both as fact and by comparison , for when before have the begin- nings of a nation been journalized ? The impulse to the keeping of a day - book may be of several sorts , the purely business , the ...
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... tion . I am , SIR , Your most obedient , most humble Servant , JOHN DAVIS THOMAS JEFFERSON , Esq . President of the United States of America , Monticello , Virginia . TH MONTICELLO , September 9 , 1801 . Sir , BANKS OF THE OCCOQUAN ...
... tion . I am , SIR , Your most obedient , most humble Servant , JOHN DAVIS THOMAS JEFFERSON , Esq . President of the United States of America , Monticello , Virginia . TH MONTICELLO , September 9 , 1801 . Sir , BANKS OF THE OCCOQUAN ...
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... tion with Ulysses and Eneas , and growing giddy with the violence of poetical tempests , I was performing a sailor's duty in a ship of nine hundred tons , and encountering the gales of the promontory of Africa . I have visited many ...
... tion with Ulysses and Eneas , and growing giddy with the violence of poetical tempests , I was performing a sailor's duty in a ship of nine hundred tons , and encountering the gales of the promontory of Africa . I have visited many ...
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... tion , and I was lamenting the inequality of conditions in the world , when night overtook me . I now redoubled my pace , not without the apprehension that I should have to seek my lodgings in some tree , to avoid the beasts that ...
... tion , and I was lamenting the inequality of conditions in the world , when night overtook me . I now redoubled my pace , not without the apprehension that I should have to seek my lodgings in some tree , to avoid the beasts that ...
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... tion in the woods arose from the carelessness of some backwoods - men , who having neg- lected to extinguish their fires , the flames had extended in succession to the herbage and the trees . * I was somewhat surprised on entering the ...
... tion in the woods arose from the carelessness of some backwoods - men , who having neg- lected to extinguish their fires , the flames had extended in succession to the herbage and the trees . * I was somewhat surprised on entering the ...
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