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Page x
... perhaps more so than ever attended the esta- blishing any colony in North America , —were laid , upon a basis as firm as if planned by the subtlest and wisest spirits of the age , the foundations of a great and powerful State . They ...
... perhaps more so than ever attended the esta- blishing any colony in North America , —were laid , upon a basis as firm as if planned by the subtlest and wisest spirits of the age , the foundations of a great and powerful State . They ...
Page xi
... perhaps apply to the character of Ralph Stackpole . But that , we beg the reader to understand , is no por- trait drawn from imagination . The history of this wild scape - gallows , his prowess in the pin- fold and the battle - field ...
... perhaps apply to the character of Ralph Stackpole . But that , we beg the reader to understand , is no por- trait drawn from imagination . The history of this wild scape - gallows , his prowess in the pin- fold and the battle - field ...
Page xii
... perhaps , some apology for the hues we have thrown around the Indian portraits in our picture , -hues darker than are usually em- ployed by the painters of such figures . But , we confess , the North American savage has never appeared ...
... perhaps , some apology for the hues we have thrown around the Indian portraits in our picture , -hues darker than are usually em- ployed by the painters of such figures . But , we confess , the North American savage has never appeared ...
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... perhaps , to seek for friends who had preceded them in the journey through the wilderness . Such friends were in many instances found , and their loud and affectionate greetings were mingled with the scarce less cordial wel- comes ...
... perhaps , to seek for friends who had preceded them in the journey through the wilderness . Such friends were in many instances found , and their loud and affectionate greetings were mingled with the scarce less cordial wel- comes ...
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... perhaps by the axe and knife of the militia colonel himself , on which she was weaving a coarse cloth from the fibres of the flax - nettle , sat a female somewhat younger than the oldest of the sisters , and doubtless of a more humble ...
... perhaps by the axe and knife of the militia colonel himself , on which she was weaving a coarse cloth from the fibres of the flax - nettle , sat a female somewhat younger than the oldest of the sisters , and doubtless of a more humble ...
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