Sanders' Union Fourth Reader: Embracing a Full Exposition of the Principles of Rhetorical Reading ; with Numerous Exercises for Practice, Both in Prose and Poetry, Various in Style, and Carefully Adapted to the Purposes of Teaching in Schools of Every Grade |
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THE PINE - TREE SHILLINGS . 1. CAPTAIN JOHN HULL was the mint - master of Massachusetts , and coined all the money that was made there . This was a new line of business ; for , in the earlier days of the colony , the current coinage ...
THE PINE - TREE SHILLINGS . 1. CAPTAIN JOHN HULL was the mint - master of Massachusetts , and coined all the money that was made there . This was a new line of business ; for , in the earlier days of the colony , the current coinage ...
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court passed a law for establishing a coinage of shillings , sixpences , and threepences . Captain John Hull was appointed to manufacture this money , and was to have one shilling , out of every twenty , to pay him for the trouble of ...
court passed a law for establishing a coinage of shillings , sixpences , and threepences . Captain John Hull was appointed to manufacture this money , and was to have one shilling , out of every twenty , to pay him for the trouble of ...
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Behold ! it was full to the brim of bright pine - tree shillings , fresh from the mint ; and Samuel Sewell began to think that his father - in - law had got possession of all the money in the Massachusetts ' treasury .
Behold ! it was full to the brim of bright pine - tree shillings , fresh from the mint ; and Samuel Sewell began to think that his father - in - law had got possession of all the money in the Massachusetts ' treasury .
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