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" Eating of wild meat, whatever you may think, tends to alter their temper, though all the proof I can adduce is that I have seen it; and having no place of worship to resort to, what little society this might afford is denied them. The Sunday meetings,... "
Letters from an American Farmer - Page 68
by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, William Peterfield Trent, Ludwig Lewisohn - 1904 - 355 pages
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Letters from an American Farmer

J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, William Peterfield Trent, Ludwig Lewisohn - Nantucket (Mass.) - 1904 - 408 pages
...make up the deficiency, they go oftener to the woods. That new jTiode_ofJ[fe brings along with it anew set of manners, which I cannot easily describe. These...and on that class particularly. Eating of wild meat, whatever you may think, tends to alter their temper: though all the proof I can adduce, is, that I...
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Letters from an American Farmer

J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, William Peterfield Trent, Ludwig Lewisohn - Nantucket (Mass.) - 1904 - 418 pages
...Their tender minds have nothing else to contemplate but the example of their parents; like them thev grow up a mongrel breed, half civilized, half savage,...have a very great effect on most men, and on that /i /class particularly. Eating of wild meat, what. v »ever you may think, tends to alter their temper:...
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American Literature

Robert Shafer - American literature - 1926 - 1410 pages
...manners the great distances they live from each other has! Consider one of the last settlements in its 5 whatever you may think, tends to alter their temper: though all the proof I can adduce, is, that I...
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New World Metaphysics: Readings on the Religious Meaning of the American ...

Giles Gunn - Religion - 1981 - 489 pages
...manners the great distances they live from each other has! Consider one of the last settlements in its first view: of what is it composed? Europeans who...and on that class particularly. Eating of wild meat, whatever you may think, tends to alter their temper: though all the proof I can adduce, is, that I...
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Early American Writing

Various - History - 1994 - 676 pages
...manners the great distances they live from each other has! Consider one of the last settlements in its first view: of what is it composed? Europeans who...and on that class particularly. Eating of wild meat, whatever you may think, tends to alter their temper: though all the proof I can adduce, is, that I...
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Letters from an American Farmer

J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur - Fiction - 1998 - 292 pages
...manners the great distances they live from each other has! Consider one of the last settlements in its first view: of what is it composed? Europeans, who...and on that class particularly. Eating of wild meat, whatever you may think, tends to alter their temper, though all the proof I can adduce is, that I have...
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Facing the Other: Ethical Disruption and the American Mind

Linda Bolton - History - 2004 - 232 pages
...the farmer. Farmer James's representation of the back settlers is interesting on several counts. As a people "who have suddenly passed from oppression,...of laws, into the unlimited freedom of the woods," their presence on the frontier is both necessary and threatening. As the ones who come first, whose...
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Letters from an American Farmer EasyRead

Hector St. Joh Crevecoeur - 2006 - 246 pages
...manners the great distances they live from each other has! Consider one of the last settlements in its first view: of what is it composed? Europeans who...and on that class particularly. Eating of wild meat, whatever you may think, tends to alter their temper: though all the proof I can adduce, is, that I...
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Letters from an American Farmer EasyRead

Hector St. Joh Crevecoeur - 2006 - 302 pages
...manners the great distances they live from each other has! Consider one of the last settlements in its first view: of what is it composed? Europeans who...and on that class particularly. Eating of wild meat, whatever you may think, tends to alter their temper: though all the proof I can adduce, is, that I...
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