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... lived thus in this district for five gener- ations , as farmers , long lived and good cit- izens . The place where Webster was born was sold by his father in 1790 to the fam- ily whose representatives now live there ; it covered eighty ...
... lived thus in this district for five gener- ations , as farmers , long lived and good cit- izens . The place where Webster was born was sold by his father in 1790 to the fam- ily whose representatives now live there ; it covered eighty ...
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... lived for eighty years or more , and his two sisters for seventy . Out of the scanty mem- oranda of the family genealogy little more is to be gleaned , but it is enough for our purpose to know that the man , whose for- tunes we are to ...
... lived for eighty years or more , and his two sisters for seventy . Out of the scanty mem- oranda of the family genealogy little more is to be gleaned , but it is enough for our purpose to know that the man , whose for- tunes we are to ...
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... lived with and assisted Jedediah Strong , register of deeds in Litchfield , where he read law , and then was admitted to the bar in Hart- ford . There was , however , no business . People were too poor to go to law , and the whole ...
... lived with and assisted Jedediah Strong , register of deeds in Litchfield , where he read law , and then was admitted to the bar in Hart- ford . There was , however , no business . People were too poor to go to law , and the whole ...
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... lived , and whose lives passed into his character , were a part of the great mi- gration which founded a new England be- tween 1630 and 1640 , and from a basis of English law and custom , modified by theo- cratic doctrines , and ...
... lived , and whose lives passed into his character , were a part of the great mi- gration which founded a new England be- tween 1630 and 1640 , and from a basis of English law and custom , modified by theo- cratic doctrines , and ...
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... lived it . If there were not the leisure and culture of the present day , neither were there the mental indolence and dissipation . Ames's Almanac was a joyless sort of light literature , but at least it did not reduce in- tellectual ...
... lived it . If there were not the leisure and culture of the present day , neither were there the mental indolence and dissipation . Ames's Almanac was a joyless sort of light literature , but at least it did not reduce in- tellectual ...
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