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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... settled verdict of mankind points at once to his Essays as a book which no liberally - educated person can rightly afford to be unacquainted with . Other of his works may better illustrate the vast height and compass of his genius ; but ...
... settled verdict of mankind points at once to his Essays as a book which no liberally - educated person can rightly afford to be unacquainted with . Other of his works may better illustrate the vast height and compass of his genius ; but ...
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... Settlement of New England The First Century of New England The Second Century of New England Appeal against the Slave - Trade Bunker - Hill Monument begun Bunker - Hill Monument finished Adams in the Congress of 1776 Right Use of ...
... Settlement of New England The First Century of New England The Second Century of New England Appeal against the Slave - Trade Bunker - Hill Monument begun Bunker - Hill Monument finished Adams in the Congress of 1776 Right Use of ...
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... settled policy of some persons in the South , for years , to represent the people of the North as disposed to interfere with them in their own exclusive and peculiar concerns . This is a delicate and sensi- tive point , in Southern ...
... settled policy of some persons in the South , for years , to represent the people of the North as disposed to interfere with them in their own exclusive and peculiar concerns . This is a delicate and sensi- tive point , in Southern ...
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... settling on this continent , as in point , to show that we had been hard and rigid in selling , when we should have given the public lands to settlers without price . I thought the honourable member had suffered his judgment to SPEECH ...
... settling on this continent , as in point , to show that we had been hard and rigid in selling , when we should have given the public lands to settlers without price . I thought the honourable member had suffered his judgment to SPEECH ...
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... settle them as its discretion should dictate . Now , Sir , what contradiction does the gentleman find to this senti ... settling the lands as much in view as that of raising money from them . This I say now , and this I have always said ...
... settle them as its discretion should dictate . Now , Sir , what contradiction does the gentleman find to this senti ... settling the lands as much in view as that of raising money from them . This I say now , and this I have always said ...
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