Our Cousins in Ohio, from the Diary of an American Mother
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Release : 1850
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Author : Mary Botham Howitt
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Page : 272 pages
File Size : 15,30 MB
Release : 1849
Category : Children and death
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Author : Ada B. Nisbet
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 38,80 MB
Release : 2001-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0520098110
This bibliography of more than three thousand entries, often extensively annotated, lists books and pamphlets that illuminate evolving British views on the United States during a period of great change on both sides of the Atlantic. Subjects addressed in various decades include slavery and abolitionism, women's rights, the Civil War, organized labor, economic, cultural, and social behavior, political and religious movements, and the "American" character in general.
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Page : 416 pages
File Size : 36,71 MB
Release : 1849
Category : Child rearing
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Author : Clarke, firm, booksellers, Cincinnati
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Page : 374 pages
File Size : 24,10 MB
Release : 1893
Category : America
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Author : Daniel Adams
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Page : 102 pages
File Size : 13,72 MB
Release : 1853
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Author : John Abercrombie
Publisher : University of Michigan Library
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,77 MB
Release : 1859
Category : History
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Author : John Abercrombie
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Page : 312 pages
File Size : 34,76 MB
Release : 1835
Category : Ethics
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Author : Mary Botham Howitt
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 38,25 MB
Release : 2013-09
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ISBN : 9781230206110
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 edition. Excerpt: ... 200 CHAPTER X. September. For the last two days of the preceding month, it had been as we have just said, peaches, peaches, nothing but peaches! It seemed quite like a repetition of the pigeons in February. The children's mother often said, that while there was always in this bountiful land more than enough to eat, yet that every now and then plenty set in in springtides, and then there was really such a superabundance of some one thing, that the only difficulty was to know what to do with it. As an instance of this, it may be told that one of the poorest women they knew, and, in fact, "the lady" who condescended to wash for them, was once complaining bitterly of her poverty, and of the hardship she had to endure, which she proved by saying, that during the preceding week, which was the time of pig-killing, she had been unable to get any variety of food, and that for four days running, she had been obliged to eat pig's head for dinner! This then was the flood-tide of peaches; and it was particularly observable this year, because the crop was unusually large. They had made whole skins of peach-leather; they had dried them; preserved them as jam and marmalade; they had converted them into cider, and made pies of them till they were quite tired; they had given them away, and sold them at market, and fed the pigs with them, and yet they were not ended; and it seemed as if they never would end. A large bag of maple sugar was sent to them as a present, from the happy farmer's family, who lived in the log-house among the sugar-maples, beyond Union Village. Maple sugar was like every thing else, remarkably plentiful this year, and was sold at seven cents the pound. It was a pleasure to our friends to think as they made use of this sugar, that no...
Author : John Abercrombie
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Page : 300 pages
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Release : 1853
Category : Mind and body
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