The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 21Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, John Holmes Agnew, Kinahan Cornwallis 1843 - American periodicals |
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... delight of the Scotch and English merchants , who were particularly anxious on this occasion to test the superiority of English ships over every other in sailing before the wind . Thus we voyaged for several days , until we were near ...
... delight of the Scotch and English merchants , who were particularly anxious on this occasion to test the superiority of English ships over every other in sailing before the wind . Thus we voyaged for several days , until we were near ...
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... delightful prospects during the whole distance . After shooting across the bay , we entered Whappoo Cut , a dark intricate passage across James ' Island , and then , entering one of those arms with which the sea interlocks all the shore ...
... delightful prospects during the whole distance . After shooting across the bay , we entered Whappoo Cut , a dark intricate passage across James ' Island , and then , entering one of those arms with which the sea interlocks all the shore ...
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... delight , as pure if not as exalted , in the harmony of social pleasures , the influences of poetry , and the charms of music . All this would not be true , were it not meant that man should be a cheerful , happy being . The spirit of ...
... delight , as pure if not as exalted , in the harmony of social pleasures , the influences of poetry , and the charms of music . All this would not be true , were it not meant that man should be a cheerful , happy being . The spirit of ...
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... delight to many a poor hovel , and won the hospitality of queens and princes in palaces and towers too high for his ambition otherwise to enter . I once knew a man whose reckless habits had cut him aloof from every tie of society ; yet ...
... delight to many a poor hovel , and won the hospitality of queens and princes in palaces and towers too high for his ambition otherwise to enter . I once knew a man whose reckless habits had cut him aloof from every tie of society ; yet ...
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... delighted the devout and arrested the indifferent worshippers by his chaste and beautiful execution . But feeling himself a stranger in a strange land , a prey to the misfortunes which in this unmusical world too often attend the ...
... delighted the devout and arrested the indifferent worshippers by his chaste and beautiful execution . But feeling himself a stranger in a strange land , a prey to the misfortunes which in this unmusical world too often attend the ...
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