The Queens of American SocietyPorter & Coates, 1867 - 464 من الصفحات |
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... land , and , parting with the aristocracy derived from ancient blood , have risen to individual distinction . The limits of a single volume are too narrow to do full justice to the subject ; but enough is done to show the study a worthy ...
... land , and , parting with the aristocracy derived from ancient blood , have risen to individual distinction . The limits of a single volume are too narrow to do full justice to the subject ; but enough is done to show the study a worthy ...
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... land causes for the great landholders . He was counselor for the first Robert Beverley , and trans- acted business for Lord Culpepper . Martha Washington is venerated as the earliest rep- resentative among the ladies prominent in our ...
... land causes for the great landholders . He was counselor for the first Robert Beverley , and trans- acted business for Lord Culpepper . Martha Washington is venerated as the earliest rep- resentative among the ladies prominent in our ...
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... lands had a multitude of hands for cultivation ; but the only produce the Virginia gentry chose to deal in , was tobacco . They exercised boundless hospitality ; the gentlemen welcomed each other's visits and traveled in something like ...
... lands had a multitude of hands for cultivation ; but the only produce the Virginia gentry chose to deal in , was tobacco . They exercised boundless hospitality ; the gentlemen welcomed each other's visits and traveled in something like ...
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... land , the broken repose of the older nations . Did our space permit , we should be tempted to blend with this sketch something more than a mere glance at the historic memories of the period connected with the peace negotiations , in ...
... land , the broken repose of the older nations . Did our space permit , we should be tempted to blend with this sketch something more than a mere glance at the historic memories of the period connected with the peace negotiations , in ...
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... lands , the progress of the mill and dam , then being built on the Jay estate at Bedford , and mat- ters of more minute importance , in which Mr. Jay was sure to feel an interest . In one of Mr. Jay's letters to his wife , he says ...
... lands , the progress of the mill and dam , then being built on the Jay estate at Bedford , and mat- ters of more minute importance , in which Mr. Jay was sure to feel an interest . In one of Mr. Jay's letters to his wife , he says ...
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