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The Pioneers: Or, The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale - Page 144
by James Fenimore Cooper - 1841
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The Works of J. Fenimore Cooper. ...: The pioneers (1850

James Fenimore Cooper - 1851 - 520 pages
...comprehensive, had received, from his peculiar occupations, a bias to look far into futurity, in his speculations on the improvements that posterity were...some pecuniary adventure being the connecting link in the chain that brought Oliver Edwards into the cabin of Leather-stocking, appeared to him each moment...
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The Pioneers: Or, the Sources of the Susquehanna, Volumes 1-2

James Fenimore Cooper - 1852 - 828 pages
...speculations on the improvements that posterity were to make in his lands. To his eye, where "oflfiers saw nothing but a wilderness, towns, manufactories,...some pecuniary adventure being the connecting link in the chain that brought Oliver Edwards into the cabin of Leather-stocking, appeared to him each moment...
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Cooper's Works, Volume 8

James Fenimore Cooper - American literature - 1855 - 622 pages
...sled, and very good-naturedly offered—Hiram is good-natured -to carrv up part of his load, for 36 * the old man had a heavy pull up the back of the mountain,...some pecuniary adventure being the connecting link in the chain that brought Oliver Edwards into the cabin of Leather-stocking, appeared to him each moment...
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Cooper's Novels: The Pioneers

James Fenimore Cooper - 1859 - 536 pages
...comprehensive, had received, from his peculiar occupations, a bias to look far into futurity, in his speculations on the improvements that posterity were...some pecuniary adventure being the connecting link in the chain that brought Oliver Edwards into the cabin of Leather-stocking, appeared to him each moment...
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Cooper's Novels: The pilot

James Fenimore Cooper - 1859 - 512 pages
...comprehensive, had received, from his peculiar occupations, a bias to look far into futurity, in his speculations on the improvements that posterity were...some pecuniary adventure being the connecting link in the chain that brought Oliver Edwards into the cabin of Leather-stocking, appeared to him each moment...
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Works ....

James Fenimore Cooper - 1859 - 532 pages
...comprehensive, had received, from his peculiar occupations, a bias to look far into futurity, in his speculations on the improvements that posterity were...some pecuniary adventure being the connecting link in the chain that brought Oliver Edwards into the cabin of Leather-stocking, appeared to him each moment...
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The Pathfinder: Or, The Inland Sea

James Fenimore Cooper - 1862 - 618 pages
...we have kept a watchful eye on the gentlemen, in which we have found Jotham very useful." Marrnaduke did not much like the associates of Richard in this...manufactories, bridges, canals, mines, and all the o^her resources of an old country, were constantly presenting themselves, though his good sense suppressed,...
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Works, Volume 20

James Fenimore Cooper - 1864 - 684 pages
...is good-natured -to carry up part of his load, for the old man had a heavy pull up the back of tht? mountain, but he wouldn't listen to the thing, and...some pecuniary adventure being the connecting link in the chain that brought Oliver Edwards into the cabin of Leather-stocking, appeared to him each moment...
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The Leather Stocking Tales, Volume 4

James Fenimore Cooper - 1876 - 536 pages
...comprehensive, had received from his peculiar occupations a bias to look far into futurity, in his speculations on the improvements that posterity were...some degree the exhibition of these expectations. I adventure being the connecting link in the chain that / brought Oliver Edwards into the cabin of...
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James Fenimore Cooper: The Leatherstocking Tales Vol. 1 (LOA #26): The ...

James Fenimore Cooper - Fiction - 1985 - 1388 pages
...comprehensive, had received, from his peculiar occupations, a bias to look far into futurity, in his speculations on the improvements that posterity were...and all the other resources of an old country, were constandy presenting themselves, though his good sense suppressed, in some degree, the exhibition of...
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