Speeches and Forensic Arguments, Volume 1Perkins & Marvin, 1838 |
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Page 72
... presidents , both had lived to great age , both were early patriots , and both were distinguished and ever honored by their immediate agency in the act of independence . It cannot but seem striking , and extraordinary ; that these two ...
... presidents , both had lived to great age , both were early patriots , and both were distinguished and ever honored by their immediate agency in the act of independence . It cannot but seem striking , and extraordinary ; that these two ...
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... presidents , and both presidents . These coincidences are now singularly crowned and completed . They have died , together ; and they died on the anniversary of liberty . When many of us were last in this place , fellow citizens , it ...
... presidents , and both presidents . These coincidences are now singularly crowned and completed . They have died , together ; and they died on the anniversary of liberty . When many of us were last in this place , fellow citizens , it ...
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... president and secretary . On the 19th of July , as appears by the secret journal , Congress " Resolved , that the declaration , passed on the fourth , be fairly engrossed on parchment , with the title and style of ' THE UNANIMOUS ...
... president and secretary . On the 19th of July , as appears by the secret journal , Congress " Resolved , that the declaration , passed on the fourth , be fairly engrossed on parchment , with the title and style of ' THE UNANIMOUS ...
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... president and secretary , like other acts . The FOURTH OF JULY , therefore , is the ANNIVERSARY OF THE DECLARATION . But the signatures of the members present were made to it , being then engrossed on parch- ment , on the second day of ...
... president and secretary , like other acts . The FOURTH OF JULY , therefore , is the ANNIVERSARY OF THE DECLARATION . But the signatures of the members present were made to it , being then engrossed on parch- ment , on the second day of ...
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... President and Vice - President , and in the same year we saw him , then at the age of eighty - five , a member of the convention of this Commonwealth , called to revise the constitution . Forty years be- fore , he had been one of those ...
... President and Vice - President , and in the same year we saw him , then at the age of eighty - five , a member of the convention of this Commonwealth , called to revise the constitution . Forty years be- fore , he had been one of those ...
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