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... China was called in for con- sultation , while an old - fashioned book , The Lady of the Manor , really gave us some most useful details . Only we followed our mod- els too literally , and made absurdly large preparations . I must ...
... China was called in for con- sultation , while an old - fashioned book , The Lady of the Manor , really gave us some most useful details . Only we followed our mod- els too literally , and made absurdly large preparations . I must ...
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... Chinese servants , but to make everything comfort- able to me they added the only woman that could be procured , who accepted a tempo- rary place of chamber - maid at two hundred and forty dollars a month and perquisites . One of the ...
... Chinese servants , but to make everything comfort- able to me they added the only woman that could be procured , who accepted a tempo- rary place of chamber - maid at two hundred and forty dollars a month and perquisites . One of the ...
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... Chinese could be had . Here it was like after a shipwreck on a des- ert shore ; the strongest and the most ca- pable was king , and , to produce anything like comfort , all capacities had to be put to use . The major - general in ...
... Chinese could be had . Here it was like after a shipwreck on a des- ert shore ; the strongest and the most ca- pable was king , and , to produce anything like comfort , all capacities had to be put to use . The major - general in ...
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... china plate . Nor was I the only one who felt the great kind- ness of this lady ; she was kind and thought- ful for all - the children of the soldiers , any one ; wherever she could give help , she did So. General Canby was one of those ...
... china plate . Nor was I the only one who felt the great kind- ness of this lady ; she was kind and thought- ful for all - the children of the soldiers , any one ; wherever she could give help , she did So. General Canby was one of those ...
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... Chinese trunks . These trunks were painted bright reds , greens , and yellows , with well - executed wreaths of flowers upon them , and were kept as ornamental pieces of furniture in the sitting - rooms , along with French clocks , no ...
... Chinese trunks . These trunks were painted bright reds , greens , and yellows , with well - executed wreaths of flowers upon them , and were kept as ornamental pieces of furniture in the sitting - rooms , along with French clocks , no ...
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Página 3 - With a, full View of the English-Dutch Struggle against Spain, and of the Origin and Destruction of the Spanish Armada. By JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, LL.D., DCL Portraits.
Página 20 - No person held to service or labor in one State under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor; but shall be delivered upon claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due.
Página 3 - MOTLEY'S DUTCH REPUBLIC. The Rise of the Dutch Republic. A History. By JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, LL.D., DCL With a Portrait of William of Orange.
Página 124 - The opinion was closed with the declaration, " we are obliged to conclude that an act making mere promises to pay dollars a legal tender in payment of debts previously contracted, is...
Página 1 - A Short History of the English People." ROME. By the Rev. M. CREIGHTON, MA, late Fellow and Tutor of Merton College, Oxford. With Eleven Maps. iSmo. is. "The author has been curiously successful in telling in an intelligent way the story of Rome from first to last"— SCHOOL BOARD CHRONICLE.
Página 7 - FIRST SERIES: From the First Settlement of the Country to the Adoption of the Federal Constitution. SECOND SERIKS : From the Adoption of the Federal Constitution to the End of the Sixteenth Congress.
Página 82 - Scott — who used to shoot birds for you at the frontier — gave out. They did the same for him as for Hubbard, and continued on. In the afternoon, the Indian boys went ahead, and before nightfall met Godey with the relief. Haler heard and knew the guns which he fired for him at night, and starting early in the morning, soon met him. I hear that they all cried together like children. Haler turned back with Godey, and went with him to where they had left Scott. He was still alive, and was saved....