Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-08-26
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/ freshness to it by many things which were
excluded by months delay, but while thus
extending our scope and gathering greater
and more attractive variety, are able so to
increase the solid and substantial part of our
literary, historical, and political harvest, as
! fully TO satisfy the wants of the American
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The elaborate and stately Essays Of the
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! BidckWOOd'S noble criticisms on Poetry, his
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