Ten Years in the United States: Being an Englishman's View of Men and Things in the North Ad South |
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... Roger Williams - The Yankee Character - Respect shown to Women - On the Stump - Know - nothings - Popular Sovereignty insulted - Insanity on the subject of Natural Grandeur 254 CHAPTER XVI . PAGE The Catholic Irish - Americans -
... Roger Williams - The Yankee Character - Respect shown to Women - On the Stump - Know - nothings - Popular Sovereignty insulted - Insanity on the subject of Natural Grandeur 254 CHAPTER XVI . PAGE The Catholic Irish - Americans -
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... character of " the New World ! " We were rather dis- appointed at its looking so much like the Old . Gradually we saw the low shores ; at a little distance we passed a fort - Fort Monroe ; a town - Norfolk . Aided by the glass , we made ...
... character of " the New World ! " We were rather dis- appointed at its looking so much like the Old . Gradually we saw the low shores ; at a little distance we passed a fort - Fort Monroe ; a town - Norfolk . Aided by the glass , we made ...
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... character . I shall have more to say on this subject hereafter . In this volume , condensed from materials intended to form more than one work , and which I gleaned during my sojourn in Unistatia — as it has been proposed to call the ...
... character . I shall have more to say on this subject hereafter . In this volume , condensed from materials intended to form more than one work , and which I gleaned during my sojourn in Unistatia — as it has been proposed to call the ...
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... character distinguishing them from English people . But their spitting and chewing ! Well , that is a most unpleasant way of using tobacco , about which enough has been said . I was rather worried to see a fine young man , talking very ...
... character distinguishing them from English people . But their spitting and chewing ! Well , that is a most unpleasant way of using tobacco , about which enough has been said . I was rather worried to see a fine young man , talking very ...
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... character and conduct ; and throughout the South those considerations , I believe , affect a man's position and standing among his neighbours more than in England or in the Northern States . It seems to be the result of the " peculiar ...
... character and conduct ; and throughout the South those considerations , I believe , affect a man's position and standing among his neighbours more than in England or in the Northern States . It seems to be the result of the " peculiar ...
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