Text-book of Prose, from Burke, Webster, and Bacon, with Notes, and Sketches of the Authors' Lives, for Use in Schools and ClassesGinn, Heath, & Company, 1881 |
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... eral suffrage , the very greatest in the prose literature of the English - speaking world , while the third is , I believe , generally and justly held to be , by all odds , the first in the prose literature of our own country . In the ...
... eral suffrage , the very greatest in the prose literature of the English - speaking world , while the third is , I believe , generally and justly held to be , by all odds , the first in the prose literature of our own country . In the ...
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... eral knowledge . I think it will not be questioned that there is something of special reason why our young people of both sexes should be early and carefully instructed in the principles of our federal Constitution , and in the ...
... eral knowledge . I think it will not be questioned that there is something of special reason why our young people of both sexes should be early and carefully instructed in the principles of our federal Constitution , and in the ...
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... eral doctrines of internal improvement , originated , according to the best of my recollection , somewhere between North Caro- lina and Georgia . Well , Sir , these mischievous Radicals were to be put down , and the strong arm of South ...
... eral doctrines of internal improvement , originated , according to the best of my recollection , somewhere between North Caro- lina and Georgia . Well , Sir , these mischievous Radicals were to be put down , and the strong arm of South ...
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... eral and constitutional government established by his father , John the Sixth . He got possession of the crown in 1828 , and , after a dreadful civil war , was over- thrown in 1834 . 2 The Essex Junto was a cluster of men in Essex ...
... eral and constitutional government established by his father , John the Sixth . He got possession of the crown in 1828 , and , after a dreadful civil war , was over- thrown in 1834 . 2 The Essex Junto was a cluster of men in Essex ...
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... eral Constitution which it has been proposed now to hamper , and manacle , and nullify ? Who is there among us , that , should he find himself on any spot of the Earth where human beings exist , and where the existence of other nations ...
... eral Constitution which it has been proposed now to hamper , and manacle , and nullify ? Who is there among us , that , should he find himself on any spot of the Earth where human beings exist , and where the existence of other nations ...
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