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... there were gentlemen's country seats , and tracts of woodland , some of which existed so late as 1777 , when the British took possession of our city , and cut down all the trees to serve as fuel for themselves and their army .
... there were gentlemen's country seats , and tracts of woodland , some of which existed so late as 1777 , when the British took possession of our city , and cut down all the trees to serve as fuel for themselves and their army .
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... there were gentlemen's country seats , and tracts of woodland , some of which existed so late as 1777 , when the British took possession of our city , and cut down all the trees to serve as fuel for themselves and their army .
... there were gentlemen's country seats , and tracts of woodland , some of which existed so late as 1777 , when the British took possession of our city , and cut down all the trees to serve as fuel for themselves and their army .
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Now the act of going up a hill , although Locke would pronounce it a very complex idea comprehending person , rising ground , trees , & c . & c . is an operation so simple as to need no description . Had the poet , therefore , told us ...
Now the act of going up a hill , although Locke would pronounce it a very complex idea comprehending person , rising ground , trees , & c . & c . is an operation so simple as to need no description . Had the poet , therefore , told us ...
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No mystic wonders fired his mind ; He sought to gain no learned degree , But only sense enough to find The squirrel in the hollow tree . The shady bank , the purling stream , The woody wild his heart possessed , The dewy lawn ...
No mystic wonders fired his mind ; He sought to gain no learned degree , But only sense enough to find The squirrel in the hollow tree . The shady bank , the purling stream , The woody wild his heart possessed , The dewy lawn ...
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And in her shining parlour flower pots stood , Decked with geranium , and jessamine , And orange trees , and roses , pinks and lilies , 6. Bachelor's buttons , ” crisp as she herself , And lowly passion - flower , the type of love !
And in her shining parlour flower pots stood , Decked with geranium , and jessamine , And orange trees , and roses , pinks and lilies , 6. Bachelor's buttons , ” crisp as she herself , And lowly passion - flower , the type of love !
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| Título | The Philadelphia Book, Or, Specimens of Metropolitan Literature |
| Autor | Peter Stephen Du Ponceau |
| Editor | Key & Biddle, 1836 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 28 Feb. 2006 |
| Largo | 380 páginas |
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