American Literature: From the beginning to 1860.-v. 2. From 1860 to the presentC. Scribner's Sons, 1948 |
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... letter in his Letters from an American Farmer , first published in London in 1782 , the first American edition appearing in Philadelphia , 1793. Unlike the earlier letters of this volume , which have so much to say of the serenity he ...
... letter in his Letters from an American Farmer , first published in London in 1782 , the first American edition appearing in Philadelphia , 1793. Unlike the earlier letters of this volume , which have so much to say of the serenity he ...
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... letter , to be frank - had been re- ceived by the personage robbed while alone in the royal boudoir . During its perusal she was suddenly interrupted by the entrance of the other exalted personage from whom especially it was her wish to ...
... letter , to be frank - had been re- ceived by the personage robbed while alone in the royal boudoir . During its perusal she was suddenly interrupted by the entrance of the other exalted personage from whom especially it was her wish to ...
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... letter . This last was much soiled and crumpled . It was torn nearly in two , across the middle- as if a design , in the first instance , to tear it entirely up as worthless , had been altered , or stayed , in the second . It had a ...
... letter . This last was much soiled and crumpled . It was torn nearly in two , across the middle- as if a design , in the first instance , to tear it entirely up as worthless , had been altered , or stayed , in the second . It had a ...
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