Letters from FloridaD. Appleton, 1879 - 85 páginas |
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... springs the legendary " fountain of life and perpetual youth . " The Spaniards reached out after it , hoping , with ar- rogant and despotic power , to wring from the toil of natives , through merciless taskmasters , fabulous wealth ...
... springs the legendary " fountain of life and perpetual youth . " The Spaniards reached out after it , hoping , with ar- rogant and despotic power , to wring from the toil of natives , through merciless taskmasters , fabulous wealth ...
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... spring 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 ...
... spring 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 ...
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... spring up with promise of abundant and remunerative harvest . What had wrought this change ? What had made this oasis in the desert ? Three years before a feeble , gray - haired man , over whom the doctors had pro- nounced sentence of ...
... spring up with promise of abundant and remunerative harvest . What had wrought this change ? What had made this oasis in the desert ? Three years before a feeble , gray - haired man , over whom the doctors had pro- nounced sentence of ...
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... springs from such wise investments . It is not simply finding food and shelter for the miserable ; but , without some kind hand stretched out to save by securing a self - sup- porting position , many a family - buffeted and tossed about ...
... springs from such wise investments . It is not simply finding food and shelter for the miserable ; but , without some kind hand stretched out to save by securing a self - sup- porting position , many a family - buffeted and tossed about ...
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... spring from the attempt to build up their own future on the old foundations which their fathers laid . These were doubtless wisely planned , and well adapted to the period when their ancestors began the work ; and , under the then ...
... spring from the attempt to build up their own future on the old foundations which their fathers laid . These were doubtless wisely planned , and well adapted to the period when their ancestors began the work ; and , under the then ...
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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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