The Granite Monthly: A New Hampshire Magazine Devoted to History, Biography, Literature, and State Progress, Volume 9Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock H.H. Metcalf, 1886 - New Hampshire |
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... entered the field as a candi- date . Mr. Burns is a man of scholarly tastes and habits . He has a fine law library , one of the best in the State , and a choice and valuable collection of mis- cellaneous books . He is a member of the ...
... entered the field as a candi- date . Mr. Burns is a man of scholarly tastes and habits . He has a fine law library , one of the best in the State , and a choice and valuable collection of mis- cellaneous books . He is a member of the ...
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... ENTERING LOCKS . and , with his feet firmly braced against the cross. Kerrick end . When the river was low in mid- summer , only about half a full load could be carried to Concord . The boats were built of two - inch pine plank , spiked ...
... ENTERING LOCKS . and , with his feet firmly braced against the cross. Kerrick end . When the river was low in mid- summer , only about half a full load could be carried to Concord . The boats were built of two - inch pine plank , spiked ...
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... entered the dry - goods . house of Hitchcock and Company . Here he found himself one of more than eighty young men , almost none of them Christians . He found , however , among them a few professed Christians , — and these he gathered ...
... entered the dry - goods . house of Hitchcock and Company . Here he found himself one of more than eighty young men , almost none of them Christians . He found , however , among them a few professed Christians , — and these he gathered ...
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... entering the ministry , but This association work is divided into his health failed him . To - day there local ( the city or town ) , state or home mission , the inter- national and foreign mission . The local is purely a city or town ...
... entering the ministry , but This association work is divided into his health failed him . To - day there local ( the city or town ) , state or home mission , the inter- national and foreign mission . The local is purely a city or town ...
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... entered on the work there were but three railroad secretaries ; now there are nearly nearly seventy . There are now over sixty branches in opera- tion ; and the work is going on besides at twenty - five points ; almost a hundred ...
... entered on the work there were but three railroad secretaries ; now there are nearly nearly seventy . There are now over sixty branches in opera- tion ; and the work is going on besides at twenty - five points ; almost a hundred ...
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Page 257 - Missouri will see them succeed one another and multiply, truly worthy of the regard and care of Providence, in the bosom of equality, under just laws, freed from the errors of superstition and bad government.
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