Speeches and Forensic Arguments, Volume 1Perkins & Marvin, 1838 |
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... interest as were our Fathers . The ultimate success of our political system depends , perhaps , nearly as much on the first generation that grows up under them , as on that by which they were framed and organized . It is our part not ...
... interest as were our Fathers . The ultimate success of our political system depends , perhaps , nearly as much on the first generation that grows up under them , as on that by which they were framed and organized . It is our part not ...
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... interest , have been translated and published in most of the languages of Europe . And we are not without authority for saying , that they have been regarded , by men of enlightened judgments and cultivated taste , as fine examples of ...
... interest , have been translated and published in most of the languages of Europe . And we are not without authority for saying , that they have been regarded , by men of enlightened judgments and cultivated taste , as fine examples of ...
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... interest for what shall happen to the generations after us , it speaks only in the language of our nature , and affects us with sentiments which belong to us as human beings . Standing in this relation to our ancestors and our posterity ...
... interest for what shall happen to the generations after us , it speaks only in the language of our nature , and affects us with sentiments which belong to us as human beings . Standing in this relation to our ancestors and our posterity ...
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... interest mankind ! The victory of yesterday is reversed by the defeat of to - day ; the star of military glory , rising like a meteor , like a meteor has fallen ; disgrace and disaster hang on the heels of conquest and renown ; victor ...
... interest mankind ! The victory of yesterday is reversed by the defeat of to - day ; the star of military glory , rising like a meteor , like a meteor has fallen ; disgrace and disaster hang on the heels of conquest and renown ; victor ...
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... would naturally become objects of interest to an ingenious and enterprising people , inhabit- ing a territory closely circumscribed in its limits , and in no small part mountainous and sterile ; while the islands of the 32.
... would naturally become objects of interest to an ingenious and enterprising people , inhabit- ing a territory closely circumscribed in its limits , and in no small part mountainous and sterile ; while the islands of the 32.
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