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... possessing a private sitting parlour , but taking its meals at table d'hôte . This system is due to the exorbitant rents of private houses , the difficulty of getting servants to do as they are told ( owing to its being a free country ) ...
... possessing a private sitting parlour , but taking its meals at table d'hôte . This system is due to the exorbitant rents of private houses , the difficulty of getting servants to do as they are told ( owing to its being a free country ) ...
Page 60
... possess , or have some interest in , a horse . Horses are cheap , more especially in the West ; for £ 20 a creditable animal can be procured , and a tolerable imitation of one for half the money . And here two curious phases of national ...
... possess , or have some interest in , a horse . Horses are cheap , more especially in the West ; for £ 20 a creditable animal can be procured , and a tolerable imitation of one for half the money . And here two curious phases of national ...
Page 68
... possesses a little territory of its own , some few miles square , named the " District of Columbia , " after the whole country . And the centre of American politics thus generally appears as " Washington , D. C. , " to dis- tinguish it ...
... possesses a little territory of its own , some few miles square , named the " District of Columbia , " after the whole country . And the centre of American politics thus generally appears as " Washington , D. C. , " to dis- tinguish it ...
Page 81
... big ship , which , from her unwieldiness , cannot so readily change position . The United States ' Navy possesses scarcely any F large ironclads , the only real war - vessels being " THE CITY OF MAGNIFICENT DISTANCES . " 81.
... big ship , which , from her unwieldiness , cannot so readily change position . The United States ' Navy possesses scarcely any F large ironclads , the only real war - vessels being " THE CITY OF MAGNIFICENT DISTANCES . " 81.
Page 92
... of his position , is the man required . Now , in thus asserting the want of a landed class in the North , we cannot affirm the South to possess much superiority . There is the country gentleman in the 92 THE OTHER SIDE .
... of his position , is the man required . Now , in thus asserting the want of a landed class in the North , we cannot affirm the South to possess much superiority . There is the country gentleman in the 92 THE OTHER SIDE .
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