The Works of William H. Seward, Volume 3Houghton, Mifflin, 1887 - Legislators |
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... Honor received begets self - respect ; self - respect ambition ; am- bition animates resolution , quickens mental activity , and discerns the advantages which knowledge and virtue bring to their pos- sessor . Arbitrary power procures ...
... Honor received begets self - respect ; self - respect ambition ; am- bition animates resolution , quickens mental activity , and discerns the advantages which knowledge and virtue bring to their pos- sessor . Arbitrary power procures ...
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... honors . He still persisted in the teuder of his services ; but the American ministers , now without credit at home or in Europe , without hope from the French court , and desponding over the sad prospects of the cause , pitied the ...
... honors . He still persisted in the teuder of his services ; but the American ministers , now without credit at home or in Europe , without hope from the French court , and desponding over the sad prospects of the cause , pitied the ...
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... honor our Washington , our Adamses , our Hancock , our Franklin , our Carroll , our Greene , our Warren , and our Putnam , and we honor them justly . But this , nevertheless , was their own land , not a foreign one ; the cause was their ...
... honor our Washington , our Adamses , our Hancock , our Franklin , our Carroll , our Greene , our Warren , and our Putnam , and we honor them justly . But this , nevertheless , was their own land , not a foreign one ; the cause was their ...
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... honors laid down , or one glance toward the honors gathering before him , taking affec- tionate leave of his companions in arms , and their great chief , and returning to his native land , to resume there the duties he owed as a subject ...
... honors laid down , or one glance toward the honors gathering before him , taking affec- tionate leave of his companions in arms , and their great chief , and returning to his native land , to resume there the duties he owed as a subject ...
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... honor her illustrious dead . She would have decreed him a mausoleum in the Pantheon . But why should his remains have been conveyed to the chill and cheerless vaults , where Rousseau and Voltaire sleep . She would have given him a tomb ...
... honor her illustrious dead . She would have decreed him a mausoleum in the Pantheon . But why should his remains have been conveyed to the chill and cheerless vaults , where Rousseau and Voltaire sleep . She would have given him a tomb ...
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