Century Monthly Magazine, Volume 100Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Century Company, 1920 - American literature |
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... Island . Our romancers have done their part in making the early New- Englanders appear to be peculiar people cut off from all contacts with their contemporaries . There is a sense not only of geographical remoteness , but of spiritual ...
... Island . Our romancers have done their part in making the early New- Englanders appear to be peculiar people cut off from all contacts with their contemporaries . There is a sense not only of geographical remoteness , but of spiritual ...
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... island , and forced to labor for weeks , under armed guards both day and night , it is natural that they should have concluded the white man was planning to reduce them again to the slavery they had thrown off more than a century before ...
... island , and forced to labor for weeks , under armed guards both day and night , it is natural that they should have concluded the white man was planning to reduce them again to the slavery they had thrown off more than a century before ...
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... island . Every leader of a collection of lawless raga- muffins sought to be " commissioned " by him . He appointed more generals than ever did a European sovereign . Every lazy black rascal with nothing to lose and everything to gain ...
... island . Every leader of a collection of lawless raga- muffins sought to be " commissioned " by him . He appointed more generals than ever did a European sovereign . Every lazy black rascal with nothing to lose and everything to gain ...
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... island compelled the President to throw up the sponge . Hughes is almost stone - deaf . Only one person can make him hear , his large and lovely wife . Mrs. Hughes is as tall as her husband is small . They are still sweethearts , though ...
... island compelled the President to throw up the sponge . Hughes is almost stone - deaf . Only one person can make him hear , his large and lovely wife . Mrs. Hughes is as tall as her husband is small . They are still sweethearts , though ...
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... Islands . These islands , several hundred in nu.nber , consist for the main part , of little coral atolls , and are a sort of dust of the Pacific Ocean . What advantages , asks Australia , can Japan be seeking in the possession of ...
... Islands . These islands , several hundred in nu.nber , consist for the main part , of little coral atolls , and are a sort of dust of the Pacific Ocean . What advantages , asks Australia , can Japan be seeking in the possession of ...
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