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Page 328
... say how he pattered bare- footed after the cows in the dim grey of summer mornings , how he was forward to put on the tea - kettle for mother , and always inexhaustible in obligingness , how in winter he drew the girls to school on his ...
... say how he pattered bare- footed after the cows in the dim grey of summer mornings , how he was forward to put on the tea - kettle for mother , and always inexhaustible in obligingness , how in winter he drew the girls to school on his ...
Page 329
... says : " Few men were connected with so many unpopular and unfashionable causes . Indeed , it was only sufficient to know that an alliance with any cause was considered to involve some loss of social caste , or business patronage , to ...
... says : " Few men were connected with so many unpopular and unfashionable causes . Indeed , it was only sufficient to know that an alliance with any cause was considered to involve some loss of social caste , or business patronage , to ...
Page 335
... say , that the turn of the British Minister came , who , as he shook the Governor's hand , said that the scene before him had given him a new idea of the paternal char- acter of a Republican Government . Of a like nature is another ...
... say , that the turn of the British Minister came , who , as he shook the Governor's hand , said that the scene before him had given him a new idea of the paternal char- acter of a Republican Government . Of a like nature is another ...
Page 343
... say no state paper ever more truly expressed the Christian idea of statesman- ship as applied to the most profound problem of modern times . In conclusion , it seems to us that Governor Andrew so fully lived in the spirit of the old ...
... say no state paper ever more truly expressed the Christian idea of statesman- ship as applied to the most profound problem of modern times . In conclusion , it seems to us that Governor Andrew so fully lived in the spirit of the old ...
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Harriet Beecher Stowe. apply to him : " We are now , " he says , " to mourn for a governor who has been to us as a friend in his coun- sel for all things , help for our bodies by physic , for our estate by law , and of whom there was no ...
Harriet Beecher Stowe. apply to him : " We are now , " he says , " to mourn for a governor who has been to us as a friend in his coun- sel for all things , help for our bodies by physic , for our estate by law , and of whom there was no ...
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