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... written in the colony . NEW ENGLAND WILLIAM BRADFORD ( 1588-1657 ) . One of the Mayflower colonists , governor of Plymouth for many years . " History of Plymouth Plantation " from 1620 to 1647. " The father of American history . " JOHN ...
... written in the colony . NEW ENGLAND WILLIAM BRADFORD ( 1588-1657 ) . One of the Mayflower colonists , governor of Plymouth for many years . " History of Plymouth Plantation " from 1620 to 1647. " The father of American history . " JOHN ...
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... written in a time of great drought , is also in verse . MIDDLE COLONIES WILLIAM LIVINGSTON ( 1723-1790 ) . A statesman , governor of New Jersey 1776-1790 . Author of " Philosophic Solitude ” in verse , “ Military Opera- tions in North ...
... written in a time of great drought , is also in verse . MIDDLE COLONIES WILLIAM LIVINGSTON ( 1723-1790 ) . A statesman , governor of New Jersey 1776-1790 . Author of " Philosophic Solitude ” in verse , “ Military Opera- tions in North ...
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... posterity , and our neighbors , that to which nature and the honor of our country have given us a right the liberty of opposing arbitrary power by speaking and writing truth . " $ 2 . Numb . 1 . The Bofton News 42 AMERICAN LITERATURE.
... posterity , and our neighbors , that to which nature and the honor of our country have given us a right the liberty of opposing arbitrary power by speaking and writing truth . " $ 2 . Numb . 1 . The Bofton News 42 AMERICAN LITERATURE.
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... written by Thomas Godfrey . It is an oriental story of love , lust , jealousy , murder , ruin , cast in the large mould of the Elizabethan dramatists , and its style shows that the author had studied Shakespeare to good purpose . Take ...
... written by Thomas Godfrey . It is an oriental story of love , lust , jealousy , murder , ruin , cast in the large mould of the Elizabethan dramatists , and its style shows that the author had studied Shakespeare to good purpose . Take ...
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... writing ; applying myself , in this way , to improve every important hint ; pursuing the clue to my utmost , when any thing in reading , meditation , or conver- sation , has been suggested to my mind , that seemed to promise light in ...
... writing ; applying myself , in this way , to improve every important hint ; pursuing the clue to my utmost , when any thing in reading , meditation , or conver- sation , has been suggested to my mind , that seemed to promise light in ...
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