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... interests of the Indians , have severely suffered at our hands . The Missionaries have done no good - none at all ; there have been no conversions ; and even where the Christian faith has been adopted or professed , it has always been ...
... interests of the Indians , have severely suffered at our hands . The Missionaries have done no good - none at all ; there have been no conversions ; and even where the Christian faith has been adopted or professed , it has always been ...
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... interests con- cerned , the route via the Red Sea is not only by far the most ad- vantageous line , but in fact the only line that can be called a " Comprehensive Plan , " which is the title of that which he so warmly recommends . And ...
... interests con- cerned , the route via the Red Sea is not only by far the most ad- vantageous line , but in fact the only line that can be called a " Comprehensive Plan , " which is the title of that which he so warmly recommends . And ...
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... interests ; and those interests we command , when commanding we promote her commerce . * * " True , a desert presents its affrightening visage to the traveller to - day , but to - morrow , and the scene will be reversed - the spectacle ...
... interests ; and those interests we command , when commanding we promote her commerce . * * " True , a desert presents its affrightening visage to the traveller to - day , but to - morrow , and the scene will be reversed - the spectacle ...
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... of whom there were many there - could he read the faintest sympathy with him , or any feeling but one of all - absorbing interest that he should be condemned . " As he saw all this in one bewildered glance 36 Boz's Oliver Twist .
... of whom there were many there - could he read the faintest sympathy with him , or any feeling but one of all - absorbing interest that he should be condemned . " As he saw all this in one bewildered glance 36 Boz's Oliver Twist .
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... interests of mankind to limit within the old conventional sphere the subjects of pulpit discourses , -that in consequence of nothing more than an occasional and wholesale denunciation about business , politics , amusements , and ...
... interests of mankind to limit within the old conventional sphere the subjects of pulpit discourses , -that in consequence of nothing more than an occasional and wholesale denunciation about business , politics , amusements , and ...
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