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... Market Square and Main street . " " Probably the reason that you have never found any- thing there to interest you can easily be accounted for by what you've just admitted — that is , that you have limited your explorations to those two ...
... Market Square and Main street . " " Probably the reason that you have never found any- thing there to interest you can easily be accounted for by what you've just admitted — that is , that you have limited your explorations to those two ...
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... Market Square . Diagonally across from these last - described trade marts , the ten stores of the Newton building make a graceful curve , and thereby place part of their substantial and business - looking fronts upon Market Square ...
... Market Square . Diagonally across from these last - described trade marts , the ten stores of the Newton building make a graceful curve , and thereby place part of their substantial and business - looking fronts upon Market Square ...
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... Market Square I found a complete change . The whole- sale feature appeared to have dropped out of the street and been replaced by small stores , which in turn give way to manufacturing establishments on one side and on the other the ...
... Market Square I found a complete change . The whole- sale feature appeared to have dropped out of the street and been replaced by small stores , which in turn give way to manufacturing establishments on one side and on the other the ...
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... MARKET SQUARE . It is not a city's public square in the usual acceptation of the term , but two streets , three blocks long , on each side of the principal market , and is , without doubt , dur- ing certain hours each day , the busiest ...
... MARKET SQUARE . It is not a city's public square in the usual acceptation of the term , but two streets , three blocks long , on each side of the principal market , and is , without doubt , dur- ing certain hours each day , the busiest ...
Page 92
... market is open every day from early morning to noon and on Saturday until ten at night . To see the huck- ster - stands and market ... square . Some harangue the multitude by proving that they have soap that will even remove the stains from ...
... market is open every day from early morning to noon and on Saturday until ten at night . To see the huck- ster - stands and market ... square . Some harangue the multitude by proving that they have soap that will even remove the stains from ...
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advertisement Agent Albemarle appearance architectural Atlantic attractive avenue Baltimore Bank street beautiful Bern Bros building Canal cemeteries centre Chesapeake Church street citizens of Norfolk Commerce street Company corner cotton court-house crossing CURRITUCK COUNTY Dealers Doric order Edenton Editor and Proprietor Elizabeth City erected Fearing street Free Mason Free Mason street freight front GATESVILLE give Granby street granite grounds handsome harbor Hotel interest iron Kinston Lambert's Point land leading business houses look magnificent Main street mansard Manufacturers marble Marine Market Square Middle street monuments Navigation neat Neuse Norfolk Southern Norfolk Southern Railroad North Carolina Nowitzky's ornamented Pamlico park Pasquotank passengers Perquimans county Portsmouth pretty railroad RALEIGH road Roanoke river solid sound and river South stands steam-boats steamer stone stranger stream structure substantial surroundings tion tower town trees Trent River Virginia walk walls Washington Water street weekly well-designed wharf wharves Wholesale and Retail
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Page 67 - Napoleon utter a more original truth than when he said, that there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous...
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Page 16 - In fancy now, beneath the twilight gloom, Come, let me lead thee o'er this "second Rome! Where tribunes rule, where dusky Davi bow, And what was Goose Creek once is Tiber now...
Page 87 - Oh Death ! where is thy sting ? Oh Grave ! where is thy victory ? The sting of Death is sin, and the strength of sin is the Law.
Page 67 - there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous," but in this case the sense is reversed : the outside is ridiculous — the inside is sublime.
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