Speeches and Forensic Arguments, Volume 1Perkins & Marvin, 1838 |
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... feeling , expressed in the works of our own dis- tinguished Statesmen of the present generation , are more emphatically important . They may be regarded strictly " above all price , " the most precious and most sacred of the national ...
... feeling , expressed in the works of our own dis- tinguished Statesmen of the present generation , are more emphatically important . They may be regarded strictly " above all price , " the most precious and most sacred of the national ...
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... feeling which nature prompts , and teaches to be proper among children of the same Eternal Parent , to the contem- plation of the myriads of fellow beings , with which his goodness has peopled the infinite of space ; -so neither is it ...
... feeling which nature prompts , and teaches to be proper among children of the same Eternal Parent , to the contem- plation of the myriads of fellow beings , with which his goodness has peopled the infinite of space ; -so neither is it ...
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... feeling , connected with this occasion , too strong to be resisted ; a sort of genius of the place , which inspires and awes us . We feel that we are on the spot , where the first scene of our history was laid ; where the hearths and ...
... feeling , connected with this occasion , too strong to be resisted ; a sort of genius of the place , which inspires and awes us . We feel that we are on the spot , where the first scene of our history was laid ; where the hearths and ...
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... feeling takes a character of extravagance and enthusiasm , and seems to threaten the order of society , and shake the columns of the social edifice , its principal danger is in its re- straint . If it be allowed indulgence and expansion ...
... feeling takes a character of extravagance and enthusiasm , and seems to threaten the order of society , and shake the columns of the social edifice , its principal danger is in its re- straint . If it be allowed indulgence and expansion ...
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... feeling , and demand from the heart a sort of recognition and regard . This Rock soon became hallowed in the esteem of the Pilgrims , and these hills grate- ful to their sight . Neither they nor their children were again to till the ...
... feeling , and demand from the heart a sort of recognition and regard . This Rock soon became hallowed in the esteem of the Pilgrims , and these hills grate- ful to their sight . Neither they nor their children were again to till the ...
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