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... gave a distinct Cavalier tone to Virginia society . The manners of the mother country were in a measure reproduced . " The Virginian planter was essentially a transplanted Englishman in tastes . and convictions , and emulated the social ...
... gave a distinct Cavalier tone to Virginia society . The manners of the mother country were in a measure reproduced . " The Virginian planter was essentially a transplanted Englishman in tastes . and convictions , and emulated the social ...
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... gave me up for lost ; always in mutinies , wants , and miseries ; blown up with gunpowder ; a long time a prisoner among the French pirates , from whom escaping in a little boat by myself . . . . And many a score of the worst winter ...
... gave me up for lost ; always in mutinies , wants , and miseries ; blown up with gunpowder ; a long time a prisoner among the French pirates , from whom escaping in a little boat by myself . . . . And many a score of the worst winter ...
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... gave me a turn of thinking , that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life . " Cot- ton Mather sought to check the vice of drunkenness , and was perhaps our first temperance reformer . Though he purchased a ...
... gave me a turn of thinking , that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life . " Cot- ton Mather sought to check the vice of drunkenness , and was perhaps our first temperance reformer . Though he purchased a ...
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... gave in large Lifts of them to the Commit- tee of the General Affembly , to be laid before the Privy - Council . It likewife obferves , that a great Number of o they ill affected perfons are come over from France , under pretence of ...
... gave in large Lifts of them to the Commit- tee of the General Affembly , to be laid before the Privy - Council . It likewife obferves , that a great Number of o they ill affected perfons are come over from France , under pretence of ...
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... gave too much authority to England . Thus , though the sentiment of union was steadily growing , it did not reach full practical realization . That consummation , which was to mark the birth of the American nation , was reserved for the ...
... gave too much authority to England . Thus , though the sentiment of union was steadily growing , it did not reach full practical realization . That consummation , which was to mark the birth of the American nation , was reserved for the ...
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