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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... proper distance . What is the most wanted in Philadelphia is a curve . Who with the slight- est pretensions to taste , but must have noticed the superior beauty of High Street in Oxford from its fine sweep ? college after college ...
... proper distance . What is the most wanted in Philadelphia is a curve . Who with the slight- est pretensions to taste , but must have noticed the superior beauty of High Street in Oxford from its fine sweep ? college after college ...
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... proper use of this superior locality . Philadel phia is on a level surface , making the uniformity of the plan still more displeasing . I knew before I saw it , from the description I had heard of it , that I should not admire it ; and ...
... proper use of this superior locality . Philadel phia is on a level surface , making the uniformity of the plan still more displeasing . I knew before I saw it , from the description I had heard of it , that I should not admire it ; and ...
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... proper plan for a traveller in a foreign land . Good temper may be sometimes requisite indeed without it , no person should think of leaving his native country ; with it , he may proceed easily notwithstanding occasional causes of ...
... proper plan for a traveller in a foreign land . Good temper may be sometimes requisite indeed without it , no person should think of leaving his native country ; with it , he may proceed easily notwithstanding occasional causes of ...
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... proper to be pursued by every one desirous of knowing what are the feelings , habits and condition of the different classes . I saw the impolicy of confining to one mode , by learning the opinions of a New York gentleman respecting ...
... proper to be pursued by every one desirous of knowing what are the feelings , habits and condition of the different classes . I saw the impolicy of confining to one mode , by learning the opinions of a New York gentleman respecting ...
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... proper to observe that the Virginians are to be exempted from this particular , since they are not at all backward to manifest their feelings . Of the men in general it is not- withstanding to be said , that they never show that ...
... proper to observe that the Virginians are to be exempted from this particular , since they are not at all backward to manifest their feelings . Of the men in general it is not- withstanding to be said , that they never show that ...
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