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Page xv
They who build palaces and monuments with a profuse hand , on the other side of the channel , sold the Irish Capitol , and it was forth with converted into a ball for money - changers . I confess that overleaping all the obstacles which ...
They who build palaces and monuments with a profuse hand , on the other side of the channel , sold the Irish Capitol , and it was forth with converted into a ball for money - changers . I confess that overleaping all the obstacles which ...
Page xxi
He thoroughly mastered every elementary book which was put into his hands , making a written analysis of its contents . Completing his legal preparation with John Duer and Ogden Hoffman , Esquires , in Goshen , N. Y. , he was admitted ...
He thoroughly mastered every elementary book which was put into his hands , making a written analysis of its contents . Completing his legal preparation with John Duer and Ogden Hoffman , Esquires , in Goshen , N. Y. , he was admitted ...
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And on the other hand , if we offer no scheme or plan for the adoption of the slave states , with the assent and co - operation of Congress , it is only because the slave states are unwilling as yet to receive such suggestions , or even ...
And on the other hand , if we offer no scheme or plan for the adoption of the slave states , with the assent and co - operation of Congress , it is only because the slave states are unwilling as yet to receive such suggestions , or even ...
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With the appointing power , to a great degree , in their hands - controlling the currency , by their connexion with the banks — retaining well - disciplined emissaries in every county and town to carry their plans into effect — this ...
With the appointing power , to a great degree , in their hands - controlling the currency , by their connexion with the banks — retaining well - disciplined emissaries in every county and town to carry their plans into effect — this ...
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The prison , he maintained , should be made a house of refuge , rather than a place of punishment , where its unfortunate inmates might find protection from the wrongs they had received , in most cases at the hands of men — where they ...
The prison , he maintained , should be made a house of refuge , rather than a place of punishment , where its unfortunate inmates might find protection from the wrongs they had received , in most cases at the hands of men — where they ...
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| Title | The Works of William H. Seward, Volume 1 The Works of William H. Seward, William Henry Seward |
| Author | William Henry Seward |
| Editor | George E. Baker |
| Publisher | Houghton, Mifflin, 1884 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 2 Sep 2009 |
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