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... poor people . How can it be otherwise , held in bondage as they have been for centuries , subject to be taxed at the discretion of their owners ; the results of their labors wrested from them ; no advance made by the most enterprising ...
... poor people . How can it be otherwise , held in bondage as they have been for centuries , subject to be taxed at the discretion of their owners ; the results of their labors wrested from them ; no advance made by the most enterprising ...
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... poor people there is little or no comfort . Many of them have neither beds nor chairs , and the occupants spend a sort of camp life within doors , cooking their food like Indians , and huddling round the earthern stove or fire- place in ...
... poor people there is little or no comfort . Many of them have neither beds nor chairs , and the occupants spend a sort of camp life within doors , cooking their food like Indians , and huddling round the earthern stove or fire- place in ...
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... poor people are sincere in their devotion there can be no doubt . Their sincerity , indeed , is at- tested by the strongest proofs of self - sacrifice . A Rus- sian will not hesitate to lie , rob , murder , or suffer starva- tion for ...
... poor people are sincere in their devotion there can be no doubt . Their sincerity , indeed , is at- tested by the strongest proofs of self - sacrifice . A Rus- sian will not hesitate to lie , rob , murder , or suffer starva- tion for ...
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... poor creatures were chained in pairs , and guarded by a strong detachment of soldiers . Their appearance , as they stood in the street awaiting the order to march , was very sad . Most of them were miserably clad , and some scarcely ...
... poor creatures were chained in pairs , and guarded by a strong detachment of soldiers . Their appearance , as they stood in the street awaiting the order to march , was very sad . Most of them were miserably clad , and some scarcely ...
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... poor creatures a journey of some fifteen hundred or two thousand miles - I was insensibly reminded of that touching little story of filial affection , " Elizabeth of Si- beria , " a story drawn from nature , and known in all civ- ilized ...
... poor creatures a journey of some fifteen hundred or two thousand miles - I was insensibly reminded of that touching little story of filial affection , " Elizabeth of Si- beria , " a story drawn from nature , and known in all civ- ilized ...
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