The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 4David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher Munroe & Francis, 1807 vol. 3-4 include appendix: "The Political cabinet." |
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... Indian ; " and more particularly " The Revenge of America , " are very fine ; but the latter is too short for such a sub- ject , and ends too abruptly . On the whole , I cannot honestly sub- scribe to Mr. Wooll , where he says : " There ...
... Indian ; " and more particularly " The Revenge of America , " are very fine ; but the latter is too short for such a sub- ject , and ends too abruptly . On the whole , I cannot honestly sub- scribe to Mr. Wooll , where he says : " There ...
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... Indian arrows , till you heard in the shallop . You trembled at that the report of the English muskets . But how great was your terrour , when the wind rose , the sea grew tumultuous , the rudder broke , and two men with oars , could ...
... Indian arrows , till you heard in the shallop . You trembled at that the report of the English muskets . But how great was your terrour , when the wind rose , the sea grew tumultuous , the rudder broke , and two men with oars , could ...
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... Indians , & c . Hence we shall quote the state- ment of the whale fishery on the North American coast in the same year . For there arrived in England fromthese coasts , about the month of July , 154 tons of train and whate oil , and ...
... Indians , & c . Hence we shall quote the state- ment of the whale fishery on the North American coast in the same year . For there arrived in England fromthese coasts , about the month of July , 154 tons of train and whate oil , and ...
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David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher. ' Six Cherokee Indians accom- panied Sir Alexander Cumming to England , where a treaty of peace was signed , ' & c . The inhabi- tants of the several towns of the Cherokees ...
David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher. ' Six Cherokee Indians accom- panied Sir Alexander Cumming to England , where a treaty of peace was signed , ' & c . The inhabi- tants of the several towns of the Cherokees ...
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... Indian tribe From Welchmen straight descended : Nor , much as of Philosophers The fancies it might tickle ; To season his adventures , met A Mountain , sous'd in pickle . He never left this nether world— ( 2 ) For still he had his ...
... Indian tribe From Welchmen straight descended : Nor , much as of Philosophers The fancies it might tickle ; To season his adventures , met A Mountain , sous'd in pickle . He never left this nether world— ( 2 ) For still he had his ...
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