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" One thing may be said for the Inhabitants of that Province, that they are not troubled with any Religious Fumes, and have the least Superstition of any People living. They do not know Sunday from any other day, any more than Robinson Crusoe did, which... "
A Short History of American Literature: Designed Primarily for Use in ... - Page 297
by Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1900 - 374 pages
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The Westover Manuscripts: Containing the History of the Dividing Line ...

William Byrd - 1841 - 156 pages
...inhabitants of that f province, that they are not troubled with any religious fumes, and have the ; . • L least superstition of any people living. They do not...manner of cruelty in it, either to servants or cattle. It was with some difficulty we could make our people quit the good cheer they met with at this house,...
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A History of American Literature, Volume 2

Moses Coit Tyler - 1878 - 354 pages
...said for the inhabitants of that province, that they are not troubled with any religious fumes, and have the least superstition of any people living....manner of cruelty in it, either to servants or cattle." 5 He suggests that, once in two or three years, the clergy of Virginia should " vouchsafe to take a...
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A History of American Literature, Volume 2

Moses Coit Tyler - 1878 - 356 pages
...said for the inhabitants of that province, that they are not troubled with any religious fumes, and have the least superstition of any people living....manner of cruelty in it, either to servants or cattle." 5 He suggests that, once in two or three years, the clergy of Virginia should " vouchsafe to take a...
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A History of American Literature [during the Colonial Time] ...

Moses Coit Tyler - 1890 - 664 pages
...said for the inhabitants of that province, that they are not troubled with any religious fumes, and have the least superstition of any people living. They do not know Sunday from any other day, anymore than Robinson Crusoe did; which would give them a great advantage, were they given to be industrious....
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The Forum, Volume 34

Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, Frederic Taber Cooper, Arthur Hooley, George Henry Payne, Henry Goddard Leach - 1902 - 672 pages
...said for the Inhabitants of that Province, that they are not troubled with any Religious Fumes, and have the least Superstition of any People living....of cruelty in it, either to Servants or Cattle. The Indians were already dying out fast; but here and there the party fell in with them. On the Indian...
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The Colonial Cavalier: Or, Southern Life Before the Revolution

Maud Wilder Goodwin - 1895 - 328 pages
...prayers." PAGE 212. — " The church at Edenton, NC" Colonel Byrd of Westover writes of the Carolinians: "They do not know Sunday from any other day, any more than Robinson 3" Crusoe did, which would give them a great advantage were they given to be industrious. But they...
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Colonial Prose and Poetry ...: Revolutionary literature [to 1775

William Peterfield Trent, Benjamin Willis Wells - 1901 - 358 pages
...said tor the inhabitants of that province, that they are not troubled with any religious fumes, and have the least superstition of any people living....manner of cruelty in it, either to servants or cattle. 1 6th . . . We passed by no less than twoquaker meeting-houses, one of which had an awkward ornament...
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History of North Carolina

John Lawson - 1903 - 204 pages
...North Carolina, they that are not troubled, with any religious fumes, and have the least superstitions of any people living. They do not know Sunday from...manner of cruelty in it either to servants or cattle. Whole flocks of women and children flew hither to stare at U1*. Some borderers, too, had a great mind...
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A History of Southern Literature

Carl Holliday - 1906 - 414 pages
...remembering that the clergy is really guilty of bestriding such as have the misfortune to be poor. . . . They do not know Sunday from any other day any more...manner of cruelty in it, either to servants or cattle." It would seem, also, that these Carolinians had no taste for classic architecture. "A citizen here,"...
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Library of Southern Literature: Biography

Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Kent - 1909 - 522 pages
...said for the Inhabitants of that Province, that they are not troubled with any Religious Fumes, and have the least Superstition of any People living....manner of cruelty in it, either to Servants or Cattle. It was with some difficulty we cou'd make our People quit the good chear they met with at this House,...
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