A Summary View of America: Comprising a Description of the Face of the Country, and of Several of the Principal Cities; and Remarks on the Social, Moral and Political Character of the People: Being the Result of Observations and Enquiries During a Journey in the United StatesT. Cadell, 1824 - 503 pages |
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... language is ral , yet there are distr ages are exclusively spok arts of Pennsylvania , Gerr ew York , Dutch ; in Louisia Florida , Spanish . Are the eak these different languages uthors for their countrymen ? mericans as well as those ...
... language is ral , yet there are distr ages are exclusively spok arts of Pennsylvania , Gerr ew York , Dutch ; in Louisia Florida , Spanish . Are the eak these different languages uthors for their countrymen ? mericans as well as those ...
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... . The Slave Trade ......... .... XXI . The Free Blacks ....... XXII . The Colonization Society .. XXIII . The English Language 273 280 ... 303 326 XXIV . Oratory ... 335 CHAPTER XXV . Literature ....... XXVI . The Government .......
... . The Slave Trade ......... .... XXI . The Free Blacks ....... XXII . The Colonization Society .. XXIII . The English Language 273 280 ... 303 326 XXIV . Oratory ... 335 CHAPTER XXV . Literature ....... XXVI . The Government .......
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... language with tolerable fluency joined us . We became quite in high glee ; but whatever laughs were made at American peculiarities , there was no other than a cordial feeling to the citizens in general . I have now perhaps written more ...
... language with tolerable fluency joined us . We became quite in high glee ; but whatever laughs were made at American peculiarities , there was no other than a cordial feeling to the citizens in general . I have now perhaps written more ...
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... language . The practice of conversing freely and instantaneously as the French do , with persons who are entire strangers , is what shocks their ideas of female delicacy and reserve . But in their own private circles , they are as com ...
... language . The practice of conversing freely and instantaneously as the French do , with persons who are entire strangers , is what shocks their ideas of female delicacy and reserve . But in their own private circles , they are as com ...
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... language , are more intelligent and sensible than vast numbers of others more learned ; yet there is so much pleasure derivable from the study of other languages , that I wish women as well as men to be partakers of it . But then a ...
... language , are more intelligent and sensible than vast numbers of others more learned ; yet there is so much pleasure derivable from the study of other languages , that I wish women as well as men to be partakers of it . But then a ...
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