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The reasons assigned for the disappearance of this race from Mexico after so large an importation of slaves as that which took place in the last century is the incongeniality of the climate of Mexico, particularly of the table-lands, to the negro constitution.
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But in a few weeks the incongeniality of their dispositions, for a moment forgotten in their common grief, asserted itself anew.
The Court of the Empress Josephine Arthur L��on Imbert de Saint-Amand 1867
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But, better still, I hope to feel no more that sometimes despairing, sometimes insolently contemptuous, feeling of incongeniality with my time and place.
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli Ossoli, Margaret F 1851
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Perhaps they felt an awkward consciousness of the incongeniality of such proceedings with our republican institutions.
An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans Lydia Maria Francis Child 1841
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It does not say _slaves_; for the feelings of the framers of that glorious instrument would not suffer them to use _that_ word, on account of its anti-congeniality -- its incongeniality to the idea of a constitution for freemen.
An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans Lydia Maria Francis Child 1841
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But, better still, I hope to feel no more that sometimes despairing, sometimes insolently contemptuous, feeling of incongeniality with my time and place.
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I Margaret Fuller 1830
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