Hochelaga: Or, England in the New World, Том 2Colburn and Company, 1851 |
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... affairs ; on the state of the poor , from the Andover workhouse ; on the nobility , from the late Lord Hertford ; on morality , from Doctor Lardner . These are the sort of data on such matters , kept for ever before their eyes by their ...
... affairs ; on the state of the poor , from the Andover workhouse ; on the nobility , from the late Lord Hertford ; on morality , from Doctor Lardner . These are the sort of data on such matters , kept for ever before their eyes by their ...
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... affair at a New York theatre , the other night , illustrative of my assertion . A stiff - necked English- man had engaged a front place , and of course , the best corner ; when the curtain rose , he was duly seated , opera - glass in ...
... affair at a New York theatre , the other night , illustrative of my assertion . A stiff - necked English- man had engaged a front place , and of course , the best corner ; when the curtain rose , he was duly seated , opera - glass in ...
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... affair would end , returned in about twenty minutes , and again urged my request . " Sit down and wait " was the stern reply . Another quarter of an hour passed , and , though my patience was not in the least exhausted , I was afraid of ...
... affair would end , returned in about twenty minutes , and again urged my request . " Sit down and wait " was the stern reply . Another quarter of an hour passed , and , though my patience was not in the least exhausted , I was afraid of ...
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... their opponents ; this turned the tide of public feeling against them , and more active steps were taken to put them down . The affair has since ended in a compromise , the landlords having been ENGLAND IN THE NEW WORLD . 35.
... their opponents ; this turned the tide of public feeling against them , and more active steps were taken to put them down . The affair has since ended in a compromise , the landlords having been ENGLAND IN THE NEW WORLD . 35.
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... works and struggles on his own account : if his brother fail it is no affair of his , or if a man rise to eminence , it does not at all follow that his relations share his elevation . I will not say that the ENGLAND IN THE NEW WORLD . 47.
... works and struggles on his own account : if his brother fail it is no affair of his , or if a man rise to eminence , it does not at all follow that his relations share his elevation . I will not say that the ENGLAND IN THE NEW WORLD . 47.
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