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... irrecoverably lost : no effort of ours can call them back , or secure for them a record on the pages of memory . Another question arose : Will the man who stands where I stand now , a hundred or a thousand INTRODUCTION,
... irrecoverably lost : no effort of ours can call them back , or secure for them a record on the pages of memory . Another question arose : Will the man who stands where I stand now , a hundred or a thousand INTRODUCTION,
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James Gallaher. where I stand now , a hundred or a thousand years hence , experience the same desire to know the early history of the mighty west , of which I now am con- scious ? The answer is clear : He will . Then I am resolved to ...
James Gallaher. where I stand now , a hundred or a thousand years hence , experience the same desire to know the early history of the mighty west , of which I now am con- scious ? The answer is clear : He will . Then I am resolved to ...
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... hundred souls were converted to God . He will speak , with great interest and earnestness , of the blessed results that followed the preaching of Samuel Davies in Virginia , and James Waddell , afterwards known far and wide as the Blind ...
... hundred souls were converted to God . He will speak , with great interest and earnestness , of the blessed results that followed the preaching of Samuel Davies in Virginia , and James Waddell , afterwards known far and wide as the Blind ...
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... hundred miles into the Indian country , and there has not been a honey - bee there in two thousand years - never , within the memory of the present race of Indians . The Indians regard the bee as the certain forerunner of the white men ...
... hundred miles into the Indian country , and there has not been a honey - bee there in two thousand years - never , within the memory of the present race of Indians . The Indians regard the bee as the certain forerunner of the white men ...
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... hundreds and by thousands , come flocking around the tent , the camp , or the cabin of the white man as he journeys west . But go one hundred miles into the Indian territory , no quail has ever been seen there since the red man occupied ...
... hundreds and by thousands , come flocking around the tent , the camp , or the cabin of the white man as he journeys west . But go one hundred miles into the Indian territory , no quail has ever been seen there since the red man occupied ...
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