Ten Years in the United States: Being an Englishman's View of Men and Things in the North Ad South |
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... course , I had plenty of reasons to give when asked , since it is very easy to give reasons for any conduct not palpably insane ; but I suspect I hardly ventured to confess the real motive even to myself . I was too comfortable per ...
... course , I had plenty of reasons to give when asked , since it is very easy to give reasons for any conduct not palpably insane ; but I suspect I hardly ventured to confess the real motive even to myself . I was too comfortable per ...
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... course , we soon con- cluded they were fire - flies ; * but we were rather disgusted to learn that in the American vernacular the meteor - like insects were termed " lightning - bugs . " found that almost any insect is a " bug ...
... course , we soon con- cluded they were fire - flies ; * but we were rather disgusted to learn that in the American vernacular the meteor - like insects were termed " lightning - bugs . " found that almost any insect is a " bug ...
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... course , practical undoubted evils , wrongs , enormities- too many of them ; but when we compare the whole state of things here with what exists elsewhere , we have the best of reasons to let well alone , and to advise the rest of the ...
... course , practical undoubted evils , wrongs , enormities- too many of them ; but when we compare the whole state of things here with what exists elsewhere , we have the best of reasons to let well alone , and to advise the rest of the ...
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... course of these chapters show by what means a free , humanc , money - loving population permitted itself to be stultified , disgraced , cheated wholesale , plunged into the wildest extravagance , led into a cruel , dishonourable war ...
... course of these chapters show by what means a free , humanc , money - loving population permitted itself to be stultified , disgraced , cheated wholesale , plunged into the wildest extravagance , led into a cruel , dishonourable war ...
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... course of years such an atmospherical difference must tell on the human constitution , every one will believe who notices the respective effects in England on his own feelings , and on vegetable life , of the east and west winds . It ...
... course of years such an atmospherical difference must tell on the human constitution , every one will believe who notices the respective effects in England on his own feelings , and on vegetable life , of the east and west winds . It ...
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