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... original plan of the narrative , but it is hoped that , the general reader will take in good part , and not find objectionable , the slight filament of family annals that runs through the successive chapters . After all , it is but a ...
... original plan of the narrative , but it is hoped that , the general reader will take in good part , and not find objectionable , the slight filament of family annals that runs through the successive chapters . After all , it is but a ...
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... original papers , and much interesting lore regarding the old people and times of Bedminster . Much has also been learned from Adjutant - General William S. Stryker of Trenton , an eminent authority as to New Jersey's Revolutionary ...
... original papers , and much interesting lore regarding the old people and times of Bedminster . Much has also been learned from Adjutant - General William S. Stryker of Trenton , an eminent authority as to New Jersey's Revolutionary ...
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... original thatching needles , made of iron and shaped like a sickle . Build- ings , like people , have facial expressions peculiar to themselves . This homely house bears on its aged face a gentle and benign expression of invitation and ...
... original thatching needles , made of iron and shaped like a sickle . Build- ings , like people , have facial expressions peculiar to themselves . This homely house bears on its aged face a gentle and benign expression of invitation and ...
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... original outlines of the transition from that style to the Gothic . Its symmetry has been marred , however , by some " improver , " who in the pointed period replaced a round window , that formerly adorned the circular - depressed place ...
... original outlines of the transition from that style to the Gothic . Its symmetry has been marred , however , by some " improver , " who in the pointed period replaced a round window , that formerly adorned the circular - depressed place ...
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... original , or main building , is entitled the Evangelical Head - Church - Evangelische Haupt - Kirche . To- gether with the congregation of the town of Winningen it was among the first in Germany to fall under the sway of the Refor ...
... original , or main building , is entitled the Evangelical Head - Church - Evangelische Haupt - Kirche . To- gether with the congregation of the town of Winningen it was among the first in Germany to fall under the sway of the Refor ...
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Page 623 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away.
Page 344 - I desire most earnestly that I may not be buried in any church or churchyard, or within a mile of any Presbyterian or Anabaptist meeting-house; for, since I have resided in this country, I have kept so much bad company while living that I do not choose to continue it when dead.
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Page 102 - Not a drop of our blood have you spilled in battle* — not an acre of our land have you taken but by our consent.
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Page 1 - AT Atri in Abruzzo, a small town Of ancient Roman date, but scant renown, One of those little places that have run Half up the hill, beneath a blazing sun, And then sat down to rest, as if to say, " I climb no farther upward, come what may...
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