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( Cases of Conscience ) My employer having a negro woman , sold her , and desired me to write a bill of sale , the man being waiting who bought her : the thing was sudden ; and , though the thoughts of writing an instrument of ...
( Cases of Conscience ) My employer having a negro woman , sold her , and desired me to write a bill of sale , the man being waiting who bought her : the thing was sudden ; and , though the thoughts of writing an instrument of ...
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Romantic Rediscovery : Nature , Man , Society WASHINGTON IRVING ( 1783-1859 ) ICAs a writer , Washington Irving worldly , yet humorous and genwas so naturally endowed that tle ; a robust connoisseur , yet inhe seemed to drift into his ...
Romantic Rediscovery : Nature , Man , Society WASHINGTON IRVING ( 1783-1859 ) ICAs a writer , Washington Irving worldly , yet humorous and genwas so naturally endowed that tle ; a robust connoisseur , yet inhe seemed to drift into his ...
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This idea they have differently followed and with various success . In contrast with their writing , the style of Pope , of Johnson , of Gibbon , looks cold and pedantic . This writing is bloodwarm . Man is surprised to find that things ...
This idea they have differently followed and with various success . In contrast with their writing , the style of Pope , of Johnson , of Gibbon , looks cold and pedantic . This writing is bloodwarm . Man is surprised to find that things ...
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WILLIAM BRADFORD 15901657 | 14 |
ANNE BRADSTREET 1612?1672 | 21 |
EDWARD TAYLOR 1645?1729 | 35 |
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