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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... story have found many incidents for treatment in this locality . Not far from the farm where Fuller's daily work was done , the tragedy of Bloody Brook was enacted ; the fields which he tiled . have their legend of Indian ambuscade and ...
... story have found many incidents for treatment in this locality . Not far from the farm where Fuller's daily work was done , the tragedy of Bloody Brook was enacted ; the fields which he tiled . have their legend of Indian ambuscade and ...
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... stories like an L , and on five of its six sides is surrounded by a wide piazza affording a delightful promenade . It is but a step from this piazza to the green sward of the lawn ... story modest in aim Publisher's Department . 77 LACONIA,
... stories like an L , and on five of its six sides is surrounded by a wide piazza affording a delightful promenade . It is but a step from this piazza to the green sward of the lawn ... story modest in aim Publisher's Department . 77 LACONIA,
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... story modest in aim , boyhood life is tenderly revealed , not from the but cleverly executed and remarkably interest- standpoint of a literary critic , not as one who ing as a piece of narration , will be found in tries to write , but ...
... story modest in aim , boyhood life is tenderly revealed , not from the but cleverly executed and remarkably interest- standpoint of a literary critic , not as one who ing as a piece of narration , will be found in tries to write , but ...
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... story of Law's bubble and its burst- ing has amused us , so will our children be interested in reading of the crashes , suspensions , and panics of the last half of the nineteenth century . We are too near them , and too much in them ...
... story of Law's bubble and its burst- ing has amused us , so will our children be interested in reading of the crashes , suspensions , and panics of the last half of the nineteenth century . We are too near them , and too much in them ...
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... story of the burning of Charlestown , and of the hundreds of people who were left homeless , and of the thousands of pounds in property scattered in ashes . In less than a year after this George Washington was made lawful com- mander of ...
... story of the burning of Charlestown , and of the hundreds of people who were left homeless , and of the thousands of pounds in property scattered in ashes . In less than a year after this George Washington was made lawful com- mander of ...
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Page 142 - ... the framers of the Constitution, ever supposed it possible that their language would be used in an attempt to make this nation a mixed nation of Indians, negroes, whites and mongrels. I repeat, that our whole history confirms the proposition, that from the earliest settlement of the colonies down to the Declaration of Independence and the adoption of the Constitution of the United States, our fathers proceeded on the white basis, making the white people the governing race, but conceding to the...
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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.
Page 257 - The instruments which we have just signed will cause no tears to be shed ; they prepare ages of happiness for innumerable generations of human creatures. The Mississippi and Missouri will see them succeed one another and multiply, truly worthy of the regard of Providence, in the bosom of equality, under just laws, freed from the errors of superstition and the scourges of bad government.