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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... voted for Adams , and thus secured a majority of the States in his favour . Adams gave the first seat in his cabinet to Clay ; not from any pre- vious understanding between them , or between their friends , but because Clay was ...
... voted for Adams , and thus secured a majority of the States in his favour . Adams gave the first seat in his cabinet to Clay ; not from any pre- vious understanding between them , or between their friends , but because Clay was ...
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... vote them away in particular instances . How , he inquires , do I reconcile with these professed sentiments my support of meas- ures appropriating portions of the lands to particular roads , particular canals , particular rivers , and ...
... vote them away in particular instances . How , he inquires , do I reconcile with these professed sentiments my support of meas- ures appropriating portions of the lands to particular roads , particular canals , particular rivers , and ...
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... votes for grants of lands for particular objects rest ; while I maintain , at the same time , that it is all a common fund , for the common benefit . And reasons like these , I presume , have in- fluenced the votes of other gentlemen ...
... votes for grants of lands for particular objects rest ; while I maintain , at the same time , that it is all a common fund , for the common benefit . And reasons like these , I presume , have in- fluenced the votes of other gentlemen ...
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... votes . But for those votes , it could not have passed in the form in which it did pass ; whereas , if it had depended on Massachu- setts votes , it would have been lost . Does not the honourable gentleman well know all this ? There are ...
... votes . But for those votes , it could not have passed in the form in which it did pass ; whereas , if it had depended on Massachu- setts votes , it would have been lost . Does not the honourable gentleman well know all this ? There are ...
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Henry Norman Hudson. duty on cotton . He failed , by four votes , South Carolina giving three votes ( enough to have ... voting . This Act is the first in the order of those now denounced as plain usurpations . We see it daily in the list ...
Henry Norman Hudson. duty on cotton . He failed , by four votes , South Carolina giving three votes ( enough to have ... voting . This Act is the first in the order of those now denounced as plain usurpations . We see it daily in the list ...
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