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We are taller , and less fleshy ; more disposed to stoop ; have more prominent fcatures , and faces less full ; are less ruddy , and more tanned ; have much smaller hands and feet , anti - democratical as it may be ; and are more ...
We are taller , and less fleshy ; more disposed to stoop ; have more prominent fcatures , and faces less full ; are less ruddy , and more tanned ; have much smaller hands and feet , anti - democratical as it may be ; and are more ...
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England , including Wales , contains rather less than fifty - eight thousand square miles of territory ; the state of New York , about forty - three thousand . On the former surface , there is a population of something like fifteen ...
England , including Wales , contains rather less than fifty - eight thousand square miles of territory ; the state of New York , about forty - three thousand . On the former surface , there is a population of something like fifteen ...
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The slope of the sides of the vast funnel became mo . mently less and less sharp . The gyrations of the whirl grew gradually less and less violent . By degrees the froth and the rainbow disappeared , and the bottom of the gulf seemed ...
The slope of the sides of the vast funnel became mo . mently less and less sharp . The gyrations of the whirl grew gradually less and less violent . By degrees the froth and the rainbow disappeared , and the bottom of the gulf seemed ...
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WILLIAM BRADFORD 15901657 | 14 |
ANNE BRADSTREET 1612?1672 | 21 |
EDWARD TAYLOR 1645?1729 | 35 |
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