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Our Northern brethren also I believe felt a little tender under those censures ; for though their people had very few slaves themselves, yet they had been pretty considerable carriers of them to others ''. | felt | {
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Our Northern brethren also I believe felt a little tender under those censures ; for though their people had very few slaves themselves, yet they had been pretty considerable carriers of them to others ''. | a little | {
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Our Northern brethren also I believe felt a little tender under those censures ; for though their people had very few slaves themselves, yet they had been pretty considerable carriers of them to others ''. | tender | {
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Our Northern brethren also I believe felt a little tender under those censures ; for though their people had very few slaves themselves, yet they had been pretty considerable carriers of them to others ''. | censures | {
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Our Northern brethren also I believe felt a little tender under those censures ; for though their people had very few slaves themselves, yet they had been pretty considerable carriers of them to others ''. | people | {
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Our Northern brethren also I believe felt a little tender under those censures ; for though their people had very few slaves themselves, yet they had been pretty considerable carriers of them to others ''. | had | {
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Our Northern brethren also I believe felt a little tender under those censures ; for though their people had very few slaves themselves, yet they had been pretty considerable carriers of them to others ''. | very | {
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Our Northern brethren also I believe felt a little tender under those censures ; for though their people had very few slaves themselves, yet they had been pretty considerable carriers of them to others ''. | few | {
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Our Northern brethren also I believe felt a little tender under those censures ; for though their people had very few slaves themselves, yet they had been pretty considerable carriers of them to others ''. | slaves | {
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Our Northern brethren also I believe felt a little tender under those censures ; for though their people had very few slaves themselves, yet they had been pretty considerable carriers of them to others ''. | been | {
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Our Northern brethren also I believe felt a little tender under those censures ; for though their people had very few slaves themselves, yet they had been pretty considerable carriers of them to others ''. | pretty | {
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Our Northern brethren also I believe felt a little tender under those censures ; for though their people had very few slaves themselves, yet they had been pretty considerable carriers of them to others ''. | considerable | {
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Our Northern brethren also I believe felt a little tender under those censures ; for though their people had very few slaves themselves, yet they had been pretty considerable carriers of them to others ''. | carriers | {
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But that was a long time ago. | was | {
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The New England conscience became desensitized. | New England | {
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The New England conscience became desensitized. | became | {
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George W. Cable ( naturalized New Englander ), writing in 1889 from `` Paradise Road, Northampton '' ( lovely symbolic name ), agitated continuously the `` Southern question ''. | George W. Cable | {
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George W. Cable ( naturalized New Englander ), writing in 1889 from `` Paradise Road, Northampton '' ( lovely symbolic name ), agitated continuously the `` Southern question ''. | naturalized | {
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George W. Cable ( naturalized New Englander ), writing in 1889 from `` Paradise Road, Northampton '' ( lovely symbolic name ), agitated continuously the `` Southern question ''. | New Englander | {
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George W. Cable ( naturalized New Englander ), writing in 1889 from `` Paradise Road, Northampton '' ( lovely symbolic name ), agitated continuously the `` Southern question ''. | writing | {
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George W. Cable ( naturalized New Englander ), writing in 1889 from `` Paradise Road, Northampton '' ( lovely symbolic name ), agitated continuously the `` Southern question ''. | Northampton | {
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George W. Cable ( naturalized New Englander ), writing in 1889 from `` Paradise Road, Northampton '' ( lovely symbolic name ), agitated continuously the `` Southern question ''. | lovely | {
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George W. Cable ( naturalized New Englander ), writing in 1889 from `` Paradise Road, Northampton '' ( lovely symbolic name ), agitated continuously the `` Southern question ''. | symbolic | {
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George W. Cable ( naturalized New Englander ), writing in 1889 from `` Paradise Road, Northampton '' ( lovely symbolic name ), agitated continuously the `` Southern question ''. | name | {
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George W. Cable ( naturalized New Englander ), writing in 1889 from `` Paradise Road, Northampton '' ( lovely symbolic name ), agitated continuously the `` Southern question ''. | agitated | {
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George W. Cable ( naturalized New Englander ), writing in 1889 from `` Paradise Road, Northampton '' ( lovely symbolic name ), agitated continuously the `` Southern question ''. | continuously | {
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George W. Cable ( naturalized New Englander ), writing in 1889 from `` Paradise Road, Northampton '' ( lovely symbolic name ), agitated continuously the `` Southern question ''. | Southern | {
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George W. Cable ( naturalized New Englander ), writing in 1889 from `` Paradise Road, Northampton '' ( lovely symbolic name ), agitated continuously the `` Southern question ''. | question | {
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It was nice to be able to isolate it. | was | {
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It was nice to be able to isolate it. | nice | {
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It was nice to be able to isolate it. | be | {
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It was nice to be able to isolate it. | able | {
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It was nice to be able to isolate it. | isolate | {
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New England, as everyone knows, has long been schoolmaster to the Nation. | New England | {
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New England, as everyone knows, has long been schoolmaster to the Nation. | knows | {
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New England, as everyone knows, has long been schoolmaster to the Nation. | long | {
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New England, as everyone knows, has long been schoolmaster to the Nation. | been | {
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There one finds concentrated in a comparatively small area the chief universities, colleges, and preparatory schools of the United States. | finds | {
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There one finds concentrated in a comparatively small area the chief universities, colleges, and preparatory schools of the United States. | small | {
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There one finds concentrated in a comparatively small area the chief universities, colleges, and preparatory schools of the United States. | United States | {
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Why should this be so? | be | {
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But I think that something more than this is involved. | think | {
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Is n't it a bit odd that the three states of Southern New England ( Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island ) have had state institutions of university status only in the very recent past, these institutions having previously been A + M colleges? | Is | {
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Is n't it a bit odd that the three states of Southern New England ( Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island ) have had state institutions of university status only in the very recent past, these institutions having previously been A + M colleges? | three | {
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Is n't it a bit odd that the three states of Southern New England ( Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island ) have had state institutions of university status only in the very recent past, these institutions having previously been A + M colleges? | states | {
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Is n't it a bit odd that the three states of Southern New England ( Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island ) have had state institutions of university status only in the very recent past, these institutions having previously been A + M colleges? | Southern | {
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Is n't it a bit odd that the three states of Southern New England ( Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island ) have had state institutions of university status only in the very recent past, these institutions having previously been A + M colleges? | New England | {
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Is n't it a bit odd that the three states of Southern New England ( Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island ) have had state institutions of university status only in the very recent past, these institutions having previously been A + M colleges? | Massachusetts | {
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Is n't it a bit odd that the three states of Southern New England ( Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island ) have had state institutions of university status only in the very recent past, these institutions having previously been A + M colleges? | Connecticut | {
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Is n't it a bit odd that the three states of Southern New England ( Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island ) have had state institutions of university status only in the very recent past, these institutions having previously been A + M colleges? | Rhode Island | {
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Is n't it a bit odd that the three states of Southern New England ( Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island ) have had state institutions of university status only in the very recent past, these institutions having previously been A + M colleges? | had | {
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Is n't it a bit odd that the three states of Southern New England ( Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island ) have had state institutions of university status only in the very recent past, these institutions having previously been A + M colleges? | state | {
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Is n't it a bit odd that the three states of Southern New England ( Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island ) have had state institutions of university status only in the very recent past, these institutions having previously been A + M colleges? | institutions | {
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Is n't it a bit odd that the three states of Southern New England ( Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island ) have had state institutions of university status only in the very recent past, these institutions having previously been A + M colleges? | university | {
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Is n't it a bit odd that the three states of Southern New England ( Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island ) have had state institutions of university status only in the very recent past, these institutions having previously been A + M colleges? | status | {
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Is n't it a bit odd that the three states of Southern New England ( Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island ) have had state institutions of university status only in the very recent past, these institutions having previously been A + M colleges? | only | {
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Is n't it a bit odd that the three states of Southern New England ( Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island ) have had state institutions of university status only in the very recent past, these institutions having previously been A + M colleges? | very | {
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Is n't it a bit odd that the three states of Southern New England ( Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island ) have had state institutions of university status only in the very recent past, these institutions having previously been A + M colleges? | recent | {
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Is n't it a bit odd that the three states of Southern New England ( Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island ) have had state institutions of university status only in the very recent past, these institutions having previously been A + M colleges? | past | {
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Is n't it a bit odd that the three states of Southern New England ( Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island ) have had state institutions of university status only in the very recent past, these institutions having previously been A + M colleges? | institutions | {
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Is n't it a bit odd that the three states of Southern New England ( Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island ) have had state institutions of university status only in the very recent past, these institutions having previously been A + M colleges? | previously | {
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Is n't it a bit odd that the three states of Southern New England ( Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island ) have had state institutions of university status only in the very recent past, these institutions having previously been A + M colleges? | been | {
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Is n't it a bit odd that the three states of Southern New England ( Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island ) have had state institutions of university status only in the very recent past, these institutions having previously been A + M colleges? | A + M colleges | {
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Was it supposed, perchance, that A + M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused b... | supposed | {
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