Speeches and Forensic Arguments, Volume 1Perkins & Marvin, 1838 |
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... Standing in this relation to our ancestors and our posterity , we are assembled on this memorable spot , to perform the duties which that relation , and the present occasion , impose upon us . We have come to this Rock , to record here ...
... Standing in this relation to our ancestors and our posterity , we are assembled on this memorable spot , to perform the duties which that relation , and the present occasion , impose upon us . We have come to this Rock , to record here ...
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... stand , we also look back and run along the events of the century which has now closed ? The country , which then , as we have seen , was thought deserving of a " noble name ; " which then had " mightily increased , " and become " very ...
... stand , we also look back and run along the events of the century which has now closed ? The country , which then , as we have seen , was thought deserving of a " noble name ; " which then had " mightily increased , " and become " very ...
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... stand against the sovereign , who was himself but the greatest baron , and his retainers . But at present , what could the richest landholder do , against one regiment of disciplined troops ? Other securities , therefore , against the ...
... stand against the sovereign , who was himself but the greatest baron , and his retainers . But at present , what could the richest landholder do , against one regiment of disciplined troops ? Other securities , therefore , against the ...
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... stand here , a hun- dred years hence , to trace , through us , their descent from the Pil- grims , and to survey , as we have now surveyed , the progress of their country , during the lapse of a century . We would anticipate their ...
... stand here , a hun- dred years hence , to trace , through us , their descent from the Pil- grims , and to survey , as we have now surveyed , the progress of their country , during the lapse of a century . We would anticipate their ...
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... stand , a point of attraction to the eyes of successive generations . But we are Americans . We live in what may be called the early age of this great continent ; and we know that our posterity , through all time , are here to suffer ...
... stand , a point of attraction to the eyes of successive generations . But we are Americans . We live in what may be called the early age of this great continent ; and we know that our posterity , through all time , are here to suffer ...
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