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Puerto Rico and captured the important city
Santiago surrendered on July 17th, and eight days later General Nelson A. Miles, with several thousand troops landed at a port of Puerto Rico and captured the important city of Ponce.
— from Spain by Frederick A. (Frederick Albion) Ober

possible results and combining them in certain
[Pg 168] Notes the principles as well; but he had not the same power of speculating upon their possible results, and combining them in certain ideal forms of passion and imagination, which was Richardson’s real excellence.
— from Hazlitt on English Literature: An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by William Hazlitt

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