Travels of Four Years and a Half in the United States of America: During 1798, 1799, 1800, 1801, and 1802T. Ostell, 1803 - 454 páginas |
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... manners of the people ; these remarks I purpose to sys- tematize into a Volume , and to you I should be happy to be allowed the honour of dedicating them . The object of my speculations has been Human Nature ; spe- culations that will ...
... manners of the people ; these remarks I purpose to sys- tematize into a Volume , and to you I should be happy to be allowed the honour of dedicating them . The object of my speculations has been Human Nature ; spe- culations that will ...
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... manner of his cousin . Do you write a good hand , and understand all the intricacies of calculation ? No. Then you will not do for a private Tutor . It is not your Latin and Greek , but your hand - writing and cyphering , that will ...
... manner of his cousin . Do you write a good hand , and understand all the intricacies of calculation ? No. Then you will not do for a private Tutor . It is not your Latin and Greek , but your hand - writing and cyphering , that will ...
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... manners . With a versatility of powers , of which , perhaps , America furnishes no other example , he is capa- ble of yielding an undivided attention to a single object of pursuit . Hence we find him at the close of the Revolutionary ...
... manners . With a versatility of powers , of which , perhaps , America furnishes no other example , he is capa- ble of yielding an undivided attention to a single object of pursuit . Hence we find him at the close of the Revolutionary ...
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... manners is to be made among those in a middle rank of life . Having crossed the ferry , I resumed my jour- ney through a country which might be assimila- ted to one continued forest . Tall trees of pine , planted by the hand of nature ...
... manners is to be made among those in a middle rank of life . Having crossed the ferry , I resumed my jour- ney through a country which might be assimila- ted to one continued forest . Tall trees of pine , planted by the hand of nature ...
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... house ; a tem- porary fabric built to reside in during the winter . But his table was sumptuous , and an elegance of manners presided at it that might have vied with the highest circles of polished Europe . I make the F 2 75.
... house ; a tem- porary fabric built to reside in during the winter . But his table was sumptuous , and an elegance of manners presided at it that might have vied with the highest circles of polished Europe . I make the F 2 75.
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