Speeches and Forensic Arguments, Volume 1Perkins & Marvin, 1838 |
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... judgments and cultivated taste , as fine examples of forensic and popular eloquence . In the language of one of the most eminent statesmen of England , some of these speeches have been read in that country , with " no less admiration of ...
... judgments and cultivated taste , as fine examples of forensic and popular eloquence . In the language of one of the most eminent statesmen of England , some of these speeches have been read in that country , with " no less admiration of ...
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... judgment may have existed in relation to particular measures of the government , all must agree , one should think , in the opinion , that in its general course it has been eminently productive of public happiness . Its most ardent ...
... judgment may have existed in relation to particular measures of the government , all must agree , one should think , in the opinion , that in its general course it has been eminently productive of public happiness . Its most ardent ...
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... judgment of the world operates , in some measure , as a control over the most unlimited forms of authority . It is owing , perhaps , to this truth , that the interesting struggle of the Greeks has been suffered to go on so long ...
... judgment of the world operates , in some measure , as a control over the most unlimited forms of authority . It is owing , perhaps , to this truth , that the interesting struggle of the Greeks has been suffered to go on so long ...
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Daniel Webster. times from that year to 1775. It was in his own judgment , between these years , that the American people came to a full understanding and thorough knowledge of their rights , and to a fixed resolution of maintaining them ...
Daniel Webster. times from that year to 1775. It was in his own judgment , between these years , that the American people came to a full understanding and thorough knowledge of their rights , and to a fixed resolution of maintaining them ...
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... judgment approves this measure , and my whole heart is in it . All that I have , and all that I am , and all that I hope , in this life , I am now ready here to stake upon it ; and I leave off , as I begun , that live or die , survive ...
... judgment approves this measure , and my whole heart is in it . All that I have , and all that I am , and all that I hope , in this life , I am now ready here to stake upon it ; and I leave off , as I begun , that live or die , survive ...
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