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Wales, Prince of, calls Brother Jonathan _consanguineus noster_, but had not, apparently, consulted the Garter King at Arms. Walpole, Horace, classed, his letters praised.
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855
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It came at once into our minds, how on Sunday, three years before, the steamer "Brother Jonathan," in attempting to do the same thing, struck a rock, and foundered, and nearly all on board were lost.
Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California Caroline C. Leighton
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He wrote volumes for British periodicals, and also his 'Brother Jonathan' in three volumes.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various
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"Brother Jonathan," 241. origin of name (note), 241.
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'Brother Jonathan' as he had killed every journal in which he was permitted to pour out his vapid balderdash.
Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3 Various 1840
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"Brother Jonathan," then just published by Blackwood in three large volumes, was read to him every night for weeks, and greatly to his satisfaction, as I then understood; though it seems by what Dr. Bowring -- I beg his pardon, Sir John Bowring -- says on the subject, that the "white-haired sage" was wide enough awake, on the whole, to form a pretty fair estimate of its unnaturalness and extravagance: being himself a great admirer of Richardson's ten-volume stories, like
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 Various
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(* 10) The New York "Brother Jonathan," edited by H. H.stings Weld, Esq.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 Edgar Allan Poe 1829
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Subsequently his career was brought to an untimely close when, nine years after this period, as he was returning to the scene of his successes, he, in common with many others was drowned by the wreck of the ill-fated steamer Brother Jonathan.
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Coins recovered from several shipwrecks, including the Republic, Central America, and Brother Jonathan have added to the Mint State populations, but often carry a modest premium because of the history associated with those pieces.
Liberty Head Double Eagle, Without Motto, 1849-1866 : Coin Guide 2009
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What to that apostolic lancer, Brother Jonathan, is Texas but a Fast-Fish?
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