Selections from American Authors: A Reading Book for School and Home. Franklin, Adams, Cooper, LongfellowSamuel Eliot Taintor Brothers, Merrill & Company, 1879 - 410 pages |
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... hope , though I must not presume , that the same goodness will still be exercised towards me in continuing that happiness , or enabling me to bear a fatal reverse , which I may experience as others have done ; the complexion of my ...
... hope , though I must not presume , that the same goodness will still be exercised towards me in continuing that happiness , or enabling me to bear a fatal reverse , which I may experience as others have done ; the complexion of my ...
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... hope it will find you in good health and spirits . Your journey , I imagine , must have been very tedious from the extreme heat of the weather and the dustiness of the roads . We are burnt up with the drought , having had no rain since ...
... hope it will find you in good health and spirits . Your journey , I imagine , must have been very tedious from the extreme heat of the weather and the dustiness of the roads . We are burnt up with the drought , having had no rain since ...
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... hope he will , 1 Mercy Warren , the sister of James Otis , and the wife of Colonel James Warren of Plymouth . 2 John Quincy Adams , then seven years old . from his desire to oblige me , entertain a fondness 4 JOHN AND ABIGAIL ADAMS .
... hope he will , 1 Mercy Warren , the sister of James Otis , and the wife of Colonel James Warren of Plymouth . 2 John Quincy Adams , then seven years old . from his desire to oblige me , entertain a fondness 4 JOHN AND ABIGAIL ADAMS .
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... hope there to find some private hand by which I can convey this . The particulars of our journey I must reserve , to be communicated after my return . It would take a volume to describe the whole . It has been upon the whole an ...
... hope there to find some private hand by which I can convey this . The particulars of our journey I must reserve , to be communicated after my return . It would take a volume to describe the whole . It has been upon the whole an ...
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... hope they will be directed into the right path . Let me entreat you , my dear , to make yourself as easy and quiet ... hope to hear a good account of his accidence and nomenclature when I return . Your account of the rain refreshed me ...
... hope they will be directed into the right path . Let me entreat you , my dear , to make yourself as easy and quiet ... hope to hear a good account of his accidence and nomenclature when I return . Your account of the rain refreshed me ...
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