The Quarterly Review, Volume 30William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1824 |
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... former times . In travelling through the forests ( which , even in the old states of America , still occupy no small portion of the soil , notwithstanding the improvident destruction of wood ) Dr. Dwight was forcibly struck with the ...
... former times . In travelling through the forests ( which , even in the old states of America , still occupy no small portion of the soil , notwithstanding the improvident destruction of wood ) Dr. Dwight was forcibly struck with the ...
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... former travellers have related without always obtaining the eredit they deserved , are noticed by the present author ; and he has collected some curious facts to illustrate the subject . Where oaks have been destroyed , pines or other ...
... former travellers have related without always obtaining the eredit they deserved , are noticed by the present author ; and he has collected some curious facts to illustrate the subject . Where oaks have been destroyed , pines or other ...
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... former forest . A judge in Vermont informed him that cherry trees in immense numbers , and of a peculiar species , sprung up in the cultivated fields of his estate , there being no tree of that kind in the original forest . As he was ...
... former forest . A judge in Vermont informed him that cherry trees in immense numbers , and of a peculiar species , sprung up in the cultivated fields of his estate , there being no tree of that kind in the original forest . As he was ...
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... it were that he had mistaken the place , or for some other reason , he could not find it there , though , when he was returned to his former station , he he did again see the light shining in the same Dwight - Travels in New England . 19.
... it were that he had mistaken the place , or for some other reason , he could not find it there , though , when he was returned to his former station , he he did again see the light shining in the same Dwight - Travels in New England . 19.
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... former exact and decisive energy of the government has been obviously weakened . From our ancient dangers we have been delivered , and the deliverance was a dis- tinguished blessing ; but the sense of danger regularly brings with it a ...
... former exact and decisive energy of the government has been obviously weakened . From our ancient dangers we have been delivered , and the deliverance was a dis- tinguished blessing ; but the sense of danger regularly brings with it a ...
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