Memoirs of a Life, Chiefly Passed in Pennsylvania, Within the Last Sixty Years: With Occasional Remarks Upon the General Occurrences, Character and Spirit of that Eventful Period |
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... interests their own , and without contract or pecuniary tie , to remain with you till their deaths . One of these was a Scotchman , of the name of Thomas Gordon , who came into my grandfather's service in Phila- delphia , in the ...
... interests their own , and without contract or pecuniary tie , to remain with you till their deaths . One of these was a Scotchman , of the name of Thomas Gordon , who came into my grandfather's service in Phila- delphia , in the ...
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... interest imparted by Tacitus's affecting description of that of Varus , visited after an interval of six years , by Germanicus : -Occulta saltuum , mastos locos , visuque ac memoria deformes . Medio campi albentia ossa , ut fugerunt ...
... interest imparted by Tacitus's affecting description of that of Varus , visited after an interval of six years , by Germanicus : -Occulta saltuum , mastos locos , visuque ac memoria deformes . Medio campi albentia ossa , ut fugerunt ...
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... interest ; the ardor of which was in al- most perpetual requisition , from the circumstance of his being a champion in the gymnastic exercise of running , which was then the rage . The enthusiasm of the turf had pervaded the academy ...
... interest ; the ardor of which was in al- most perpetual requisition , from the circumstance of his being a champion in the gymnastic exercise of running , which was then the rage . The enthusiasm of the turf had pervaded the academy ...
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... interest in him , and from my experience of the force of these asso- ciations , in which , by a kind of metonymy , we take the place of the real agent , I can fully enter into the feelings of the butcher , who , ecstacied at the good ...
... interest in him , and from my experience of the force of these asso- ciations , in which , by a kind of metonymy , we take the place of the real agent , I can fully enter into the feelings of the butcher , who , ecstacied at the good ...
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... interest of her family , a post in America . But what this post was , or where it located him , I never heard . A third person of celebrity and title was sir Wil- liam Draper , who made a tour to this country , a short time after his ...
... interest of her family , a post in America . But what this post was , or where it located him , I never heard . A third person of celebrity and title was sir Wil- liam Draper , who made a tour to this country , a short time after his ...
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