Letters from FloridaD. Appleton, 1879 - 85 páginas |
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... privilege of spending a few months there , for two or three years in succession , I am confident that my " im- pressions " will be so strongly confirmed as to be accepted as trustworthy authority . " 1 1 1 CONTENTS . PAGE LETTER I. A.
... privilege of spending a few months there , for two or three years in succession , I am confident that my " im- pressions " will be so strongly confirmed as to be accepted as trustworthy authority . " 1 1 1 CONTENTS . PAGE LETTER I. A.
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... months of the last few years in Florida , the impressions made by these visits have greatly strengthened and become more of a fixed belief with each year's experience . This seems to me strong evidence that these impres- sions are ...
... months of the last few years in Florida , the impressions made by these visits have greatly strengthened and become more of a fixed belief with each year's experience . This seems to me strong evidence that these impres- sions are ...
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... months of intelligent industry and skill can effect , even in a place which on first sight seems worthless and past reclaiming . But bringing this land under proper cultivation , and redeeming it from the wilderness , is only a small ...
... months of intelligent industry and skill can effect , even in a place which on first sight seems worthless and past reclaiming . But bringing this land under proper cultivation , and redeeming it from the wilderness , is only a small ...
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... through inexperience ; but such losses should teach lessons that seldom need to be repeated , and therefore such experience is not dearly purchased . How small a proportion of what is given every month 32 LETTERS FROM FLORIDA .
... through inexperience ; but such losses should teach lessons that seldom need to be repeated , and therefore such experience is not dearly purchased . How small a proportion of what is given every month 32 LETTERS FROM FLORIDA .
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Mrs. H. W. Beecher. How small a proportion of what is given every month in careless or injudicious charity , or wasted in frivolous and unsatisfying pleasures , would sup- port a whole family here , and , best of all , give them the ...
Mrs. H. W. Beecher. How small a proportion of what is given every month in careless or injudicious charity , or wasted in frivolous and unsatisfying pleasures , would sup- port a whole family here , and , best of all , give them the ...
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551 BROADWAY abundant acres American Painters APPLETON attractive beautiful Beecher blackberries bring build cattle cleared climate Cloth comfortable home courage crops cultivation desire destroyed easily EIGHTY-THREE EXAMPLES English feeble flowers forest frost fruits Garden of Eden give graft grass guava hardships history of Florida I'ze industry John's John's River kind labor lady Lake land large number Letters from Florida lichens lovely lustrated luxury malarial fevers Mark's ment morning needed North Northern once orange orange-culture orange-groves orange-trees Palatka palmettoes piney wood pioneer plantation planted pleasure poor potatoes productive promise PUBLISHERS raised ready rejuvenated rich river Rollestown secure sensible settled sick sketches of fifty skill sour stumps South spring suffering sweet sweet potatoes things tion trees truth vegetables villages volume waste White Mountains wild wilderness winter wise woods York York Evening Post York Observer
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