Speeches and Forensic Arguments, Volume 1Perkins & Marvin, 1838 |
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... to the arts of designing , engraving and etching historical and other prints JNO . W. DAVIS , 39 Massachusetts . Clerk of the District YRABBLI STATE AS TH 393100 PREFACE . THE present generation of American citizens seems to.
... to the arts of designing , engraving and etching historical and other prints JNO . W. DAVIS , 39 Massachusetts . Clerk of the District YRABBLI STATE AS TH 393100 PREFACE . THE present generation of American citizens seems to.
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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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... seem even to behold them , as they struggle with the elements , and , with toilsome efforts , gain the shore . We listen to the chiefs in council ; we see the unexampled exhibition of female fortitude and resignation ; we hear the ...
... seem even to behold them , as they struggle with the elements , and , with toilsome efforts , gain the shore . We listen to the chiefs in council ; we see the unexampled exhibition of female fortitude and resignation ; we hear the ...
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... seems to have been suspended on the contingency , whether the Persian or the Grecian banner should wave victorious in the beams of that day's setting sun . And as his imagination kin- dles at the retrospect , he is transported back to ...
... seems to have been suspended on the contingency , whether the Persian or the Grecian banner should wave victorious in the beams of that day's setting sun . And as his imagination kin- dles at the retrospect , he is transported back to ...
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... 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 like the elemental fires it only agitates and perhaps purifies ...
... 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 like the elemental fires it only agitates and perhaps purifies ...
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