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... character and shows trim villas at in- tervals nearly all the way to the village , but the village has not moved to meet the city , and its houses and one or two churches and post - office have admitted new - comers so slowly that the ...
... character and shows trim villas at in- tervals nearly all the way to the village , but the village has not moved to meet the city , and its houses and one or two churches and post - office have admitted new - comers so slowly that the ...
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... character was especially evident in the Connecticut Valley . Here , longer than in the cities and on the sea - board , native English and Puritan stock retained the form and power which an unbroken succes- sion in blood and a freedom ...
... character was especially evident in the Connecticut Valley . Here , longer than in the cities and on the sea - board , native English and Puritan stock retained the form and power which an unbroken succes- sion in blood and a freedom ...
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... what intellectual promise they might give , were , as a matter of course , parts of the regular farm company . The jack - of - all - trades character of the farmer and the absence of a force of arti- sans 14 NOAH WEBSTER .
... what intellectual promise they might give , were , as a matter of course , parts of the regular farm company . The jack - of - all - trades character of the farmer and the absence of a force of arti- sans 14 NOAH WEBSTER .
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... character and production . We are painfully familiar with the lists of books which constitute the read- ing of the average boy of to - day , and know 66 perfectly well that they are very often nar- cotic and 26 NOAH WEBSTER .
... character and production . We are painfully familiar with the lists of books which constitute the read- ing of the average boy of to - day , and know 66 perfectly well that they are very often nar- cotic and 26 NOAH WEBSTER .
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... there was a very strong stimulus to individualism . No one with any force of character could grow up under these influ- ences without being vigorously affected by them . CHAPTER II . THE GRAMMATICAL INSTITUTE , " IN the 32 NOAH WEBSTER .
... there was a very strong stimulus to individualism . No one with any force of character could grow up under these influ- ences without being vigorously affected by them . CHAPTER II . THE GRAMMATICAL INSTITUTE , " IN the 32 NOAH WEBSTER .
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