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image of mountains in Great Salt Lake from Frederick Piercy, Route from Liverpool...,1855

Jul 24, 2019 An Excerpt from A New and Popular Pictorial Description of the United States

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"Wheat, oats, and barley, yield abundantly in the great valley. Melons and all the vines grow in perfection, as also do vegetables; while hopeful efforts are making to raise the olive, orange, lemon, pineapple, tea, coffee, &c." A New and Popular Pictorial Description of the United...

May 25, 2019 Book of the week — A viewe of a seditious bul sent into Englande, from Pius Quintus Bishop of Rome, anno.

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Viewe of a seditious bul sent into Englande, from Pius...

Jan 10, 2019 Book of the Week — Divi Gregorii, episcopie Nysseni, fratris Basilii Magni, opera quae adipisci licuit omnia…

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“…by an ever greater and greater desire, the soul keeps rising constantly to another that lies ahead, and thus it makes its way through ever higher regions towards the Transcendent.” Divi Gregorii, episcopie Nysseni, fratris Basilii Magni, opera quae adipisci licuit omnia...