The Family Magazine, Volume 5Redfield & Lindsay, 1838 |
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... ground in the vicinity , the village exhibits to its beholder an air of neatness and unostentatious elegance , not surpassed by any village in western New York . ' The inhabitants are generally New Englanders and their immediate ...
... ground in the vicinity , the village exhibits to its beholder an air of neatness and unostentatious elegance , not surpassed by any village in western New York . ' The inhabitants are generally New Englanders and their immediate ...
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... ground in moist weather , they are easily dust . The pepper - vine requires a rich , moist overflowed by water , and not exposed to sun ; spots which have been covered by c whose rotting trunks , and falling leaves s place of manure ...
... ground in moist weather , they are easily dust . The pepper - vine requires a rich , moist overflowed by water , and not exposed to sun ; spots which have been covered by c whose rotting trunks , and falling leaves s place of manure ...
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... ground , and from almost every joint strike roots into the earth , sending up perpendicularly a single shoot ; one of these is sufficient to form a plant . Two vines are generally planted to one chinkareen . For three years they require ...
... ground , and from almost every joint strike roots into the earth , sending up perpendicularly a single shoot ; one of these is sufficient to form a plant . Two vines are generally planted to one chinkareen . For three years they require ...
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... ground , while she performed an equivalent ceremony by set- ting back upon her feet in a very graceful manner . They then rose , and knelt again , repeating the cer emony several times , and ther turning toward the NATURAL HISTOR family ...
... ground , while she performed an equivalent ceremony by set- ting back upon her feet in a very graceful manner . They then rose , and knelt again , repeating the cer emony several times , and ther turning toward the NATURAL HISTOR family ...
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... ground among those who take the trouble to think on the subject , that to improve materially the condition of Indians , they must be first governed , then civilized , and after- ward Christianized . cies of refinement , in the knowledge ...
... ground among those who take the trouble to think on the subject , that to improve materially the condition of Indians , they must be first governed , then civilized , and after- ward Christianized . cies of refinement , in the knowledge ...
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Page 453 - But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is in his back, And a melancholy crack In his laugh.
Page 101 - Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
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