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... the highest interest and importance . By virtue of a resolution of the Georgia Legislature passed December 23d , 1837 , the Governor appointed the Rev. Charles Wallace Howard , an agent of the state , vili Introduction .
... the highest interest and importance . By virtue of a resolution of the Georgia Legislature passed December 23d , 1837 , the Governor appointed the Rev. Charles Wallace Howard , an agent of the state , vili Introduction .
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... interest for his subject , and excite a spirit of research and inquiry into the events and incidents of our colonial history , by reviving the remembrance of facts almost lost sight of . The older books furnishing sketches of the early ...
... interest for his subject , and excite a spirit of research and inquiry into the events and incidents of our colonial history , by reviving the remembrance of facts almost lost sight of . The older books furnishing sketches of the early ...
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interest , eloquence has contributed the charm of its inimita- ble art , while poetry has aroused the fancy , and bewildered the imagination in the wild regions of fiction . The proud Roman traced his genealogy from the gods , and ...
interest , eloquence has contributed the charm of its inimita- ble art , while poetry has aroused the fancy , and bewildered the imagination in the wild regions of fiction . The proud Roman traced his genealogy from the gods , and ...
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... interest , to combine and concentrate the talent and industry of the State in " collect- ing , preserving and diffusing information relating to the his- tory of Georgia in all its various departments , and to American history generally ...
... interest , to combine and concentrate the talent and industry of the State in " collect- ing , preserving and diffusing information relating to the his- tory of Georgia in all its various departments , and to American history generally ...
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... interest of Great Britain , in opposi- tion to the encroachments of Spanish and French influence upon them — while a critical position would thus be occu- pied , which otherwise , there was reason to believe , would have been occupied ...
... interest of Great Britain , in opposi- tion to the encroachments of Spanish and French influence upon them — while a critical position would thus be occu- pied , which otherwise , there was reason to believe , would have been occupied ...
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