Speeches and Forensic Arguments, Volume 1Perkins & Marvin, 1838 |
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Page 43
... America were portrayed in the English parliament , with inimita- ble beauty , by the most consummate orator of modern times . Going back somewhat more than half a century , and describing our progress as foreseen , from that point , by ...
... America were portrayed in the English parliament , with inimita- ble beauty , by the most consummate orator of modern times . Going back somewhat more than half a century , and describing our progress as foreseen , from that point , by ...
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... America , preceded , but by a few days , the ac- tual opening of the revolutionary drama at Lexington . He to whom I have alluded , then at the age of forty , was among the most zeal- ous and able defenders of the violated rights of his ...
... America , preceded , but by a few days , the ac- tual opening of the revolutionary drama at Lexington . He to whom I have alluded , then at the age of forty , was among the most zeal- ous and able defenders of the violated rights of his ...
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... America , and deprive her of her West India possessions was a lead- ing object in his policy . He dwelt often on the fisheries , as nurse- ries for British seamen , and the colonial trade , as furnishing them employment . The war ...
... America , and deprive her of her West India possessions was a lead- ing object in his policy . He dwelt often on the fisheries , as nurse- ries for British seamen , and the colonial trade , as furnishing them employment . The war ...
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... America , that it furnishes no class of men of fortune and leisure . This may be partly true , but it is not entirely so , and the evil , if it be one , would affect rather the progress of taste and litera- ture , than the general ...
... America , that it furnishes no class of men of fortune and leisure . This may be partly true , but it is not entirely so , and the evil , if it be one , would affect rather the progress of taste and litera- ture , than the general ...
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... Americans . We live in what may be called the early age of this great continent ; and we know that our posterity ... America stood on the deck of his shattered bark , the shades of night falling on the sea , yet no man sleeping ; tossed ...
... Americans . We live in what may be called the early age of this great continent ; and we know that our posterity ... America stood on the deck of his shattered bark , the shades of night falling on the sea , yet no man sleeping ; tossed ...
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