The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries, Volume 24John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, Martha Joanna Lamb, Nathan Gillett Pond A.S. Barnes, 1890 - United States |
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... thought to take the holidays of the year , from Christmas to Thanksgiving , connect each with some picturesque event in history , and then tell the story in terse and forcible English . The result is a contribution to the literature of ...
... thought to take the holidays of the year , from Christmas to Thanksgiving , connect each with some picturesque event in history , and then tell the story in terse and forcible English . The result is a contribution to the literature of ...
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... thought of asking that it should be abolished ! They simply pe- titioned for its removal to some other part of the city . The first newspaper you take up contains the following advertisement : " New negroes ; men , women , boys and ...
... thought of asking that it should be abolished ! They simply pe- titioned for its removal to some other part of the city . The first newspaper you take up contains the following advertisement : " New negroes ; men , women , boys and ...
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... thought ; he is the son of John Stevens , whose house we have seen in lower Broadway , and is destined to pass into history as one of the great inventors of the age . Gulian Verplanck , of the same age as Stevens , belongs to one of the ...
... thought ; he is the son of John Stevens , whose house we have seen in lower Broadway , and is destined to pass into history as one of the great inventors of the age . Gulian Verplanck , of the same age as Stevens , belongs to one of the ...
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... thought there are more languages spoken here than in any other place of its size in the world . Dr. Burnaby says : " The people resemble the Pennsylvanians ; they are habitually frugal , industrious , and parsimonious . Being , however ...
... thought there are more languages spoken here than in any other place of its size in the world . Dr. Burnaby says : " The people resemble the Pennsylvanians ; they are habitually frugal , industrious , and parsimonious . Being , however ...
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... thought to have been in 1651 , the college was " enlarging by purchasing the neighbors ' houses . ' One of the houses thus purchased was that of Edward Goffe , in Braintree , now Harvard street , and the rooms in this house were used as ...
... thought to have been in 1651 , the college was " enlarging by purchasing the neighbors ' houses . ' One of the houses thus purchased was that of Edward Goffe , in Braintree , now Harvard street , and the rooms in this house were used as ...
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