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... hand and on the left , then I will venture to say that never were public men more happy in the nature of the task they have been called upon to take in hand ; for what can be an object dearer either to the understanding or the heart of ...
... hand and on the left , then I will venture to say that never were public men more happy in the nature of the task they have been called upon to take in hand ; for what can be an object dearer either to the understanding or the heart of ...
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... hand over the glebe houses to the governing body on their paying the building charges , and they would be allowed to ... hands of the tenants for three years after the passing of the Act , and it was also proposed that the tenants should ...
... hand over the glebe houses to the governing body on their paying the building charges , and they would be allowed to ... hands of the tenants for three years after the passing of the Act , and it was also proposed that the tenants should ...
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... hand . The working of our Constitutional Government itself is upon its trial , for I do not believe there ever was a time when the wheels of legislative machinery were set in motion under conditions of peace and order and constitutional ...
... hand . The working of our Constitutional Government itself is upon its trial , for I do not believe there ever was a time when the wheels of legislative machinery were set in motion under conditions of peace and order and constitutional ...
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... hand , it is a tenure which , while it has obtained for us those great social and political advantages , has been consistent with making the soil of this country on the whole the most productive in the world . Therefore , I think I am ...
... hand , it is a tenure which , while it has obtained for us those great social and political advantages , has been consistent with making the soil of this country on the whole the most productive in the world . Therefore , I think I am ...
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... hand over the glebe - houses without payment would only half settle this question , and would still leave behind a perceptible remnant of ascendancy . Besides the 250,0007 . of building charges to be paid before the Commissioners got ...
... hand over the glebe - houses without payment would only half settle this question , and would still leave behind a perceptible remnant of ascendancy . Besides the 250,0007 . of building charges to be paid before the Commissioners got ...
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Page 294 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so; and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 242 - For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me. Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there?
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Page 305 - As the United States is the freest of all nations, so, too, its people sympathize with all people struggling for liberty and self-government; but while so sympathizing it is due to our honor that we should abstain from enforcing our views upon unwilling nations and from taking an interested part, -without invitation, in the quarrels between different nations or between governments and their subjects.
Page 350 - Stream'd thro' my cell a cold and silver beam, And down the long beam stole the Holy Grail, Rose-red with beatings in it, as if alive, Till all the white walls of my cell were dyed With rosy...
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Page 266 - Malta, to be an Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of the Third Class, or Companions, of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath.