Speeches and Forensic Arguments, Volume 1Perkins & Marvin, 1838 |
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Daniel Webster. PREFACE . THE present generation of American citizens seems to have a part to act scarcely less remarkable than the preceding . Our immediate ancestors are , indeed , singularly distinguished as the founders of our Free ...
Daniel Webster. PREFACE . THE present generation of American citizens seems to have a part to act scarcely less remarkable than the preceding . Our immediate ancestors are , indeed , singularly distinguished as the founders of our Free ...
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... present generation , are more emphatically important . They may be regarded strictly " above all price , " the most precious and most sacred of the national treasures ; as they will probably constitute the nearest approximation to a ...
... present generation , are more emphatically important . They may be regarded strictly " above all price , " the most precious and most sacred of the national treasures ; as they will probably constitute the nearest approximation to a ...
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... present joy , and gilding with bright beams the prospect of futurity , is the dawn that awakens us to the commemoration of the landing of the Pilgrims . Living at an epoch which naturally marks the progress of the his- tory of our ...
... present joy , and gilding with bright beams the prospect of futurity , is the dawn that awakens us to the commemoration of the landing of the Pilgrims . Living at an epoch which naturally marks the progress of the his- tory of our ...
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... present , and the future , and terminating at last , with the consummation of all things earthly , at the throne of God . ] There may be , and there often is , indeed , a regard for ancestry , which nourishes only a weak pride ; as ...
... present , and the future , and terminating at last , with the consummation of all things earthly , at the throne of God . ] There may be , and there often is , indeed , a regard for ancestry , which nourishes only a weak pride ; as ...
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... present upon this occasion , to fill us with rev- erence and admiration . The settlement of New England by the colony which landed here on the twenty - second of December , sixteen hundred and twenty , although not the first European ...
... present upon this occasion , to fill us with rev- erence and admiration . The settlement of New England by the colony which landed here on the twenty - second of December , sixteen hundred and twenty , although not the first European ...
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