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... cultivate a familiar acquaintance with , and to perpetuate the prominent events which have conduced to her establishment and the formation of the na- tional character , is an exercise designed not merely to gratify even a laudable and ...
... cultivate a familiar acquaintance with , and to perpetuate the prominent events which have conduced to her establishment and the formation of the na- tional character , is an exercise designed not merely to gratify even a laudable and ...
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... cultivate the soil , and to constitute a rampart between the hostile Spaniards , with their savage allies , and the earlier and more feeble settlers at Savannah . These are the High- landers of Scotland . Upon their arrival they ...
... cultivate the soil , and to constitute a rampart between the hostile Spaniards , with their savage allies , and the earlier and more feeble settlers at Savannah . These are the High- landers of Scotland . Upon their arrival they ...
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... cultivation ; 3d . The articles of culture . 1st . The grant was in tail male , so that upon the death of the tenant leaving only daughters , the land reverted to the Trustees . The monstrous injustice of this principle of Salic law ...
... cultivation ; 3d . The articles of culture . 1st . The grant was in tail male , so that upon the death of the tenant leaving only daughters , the land reverted to the Trustees . The monstrous injustice of this principle of Salic law ...
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... cultivation , slavery was abso- lutely prohibited , and the settlers had to rely upon their own labor . The ... cultivated by slaves , was con- tagious and fatal . The Georgians beheld their neighbors in the indulgence of the ease and ...
... cultivation , slavery was abso- lutely prohibited , and the settlers had to rely upon their own labor . The ... cultivated by slaves , was con- tagious and fatal . The Georgians beheld their neighbors in the indulgence of the ease and ...
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They saw the cultivated plantations of Carolina descend- ing for the general benefit of families , or capable of being devised , and they revolted at the idea that the fruits of their labor and improvements should revert , while their ...
They saw the cultivated plantations of Carolina descend- ing for the general benefit of families , or capable of being devised , and they revolted at the idea that the fruits of their labor and improvements should revert , while their ...
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