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Page 139
... learned Monsieur Co- miers . " However , he did qualify them with the advice that one should also be descended on at least one side of the family from long - lived parents ; be of a contented disposition ; have a symmetry of body pro ...
... learned Monsieur Co- miers . " However , he did qualify them with the advice that one should also be descended on at least one side of the family from long - lived parents ; be of a contented disposition ; have a symmetry of body pro ...
Page 273
... learned it did not . Inasmuch as the cornerstone of the White House had been laid in the same year that Robert B. Thomas began the Almanac , I believed these 18th century copies should be there . Several years later , in 1961 , as a ...
... learned it did not . Inasmuch as the cornerstone of the White House had been laid in the same year that Robert B. Thomas began the Almanac , I believed these 18th century copies should be there . Several years later , in 1961 , as a ...
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... learned he had taken . off to observe the Battle of Lake Erie from a vantage point along the shore of that lake . Thus all that Isaiah received - even weeks after the due date - was this as- tronomer's desultory account of the battle ...
... learned he had taken . off to observe the Battle of Lake Erie from a vantage point along the shore of that lake . Thus all that Isaiah received - even weeks after the due date - was this as- tronomer's desultory account of the battle ...
Contents
A HOUSEHOLD NECESSITY | 29 |
BEN FRANKLIN AND POOR RICHARD | 68 |
WHAT DID THEY SAY? | 133 |
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