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... letter repeated every week for over two years ; and if those who read this book will enjoy as much pleasure in perusing it as I did in writing it , and will sympathize with me in the spirit with which it was composed , I shall be ...
... letter repeated every week for over two years ; and if those who read this book will enjoy as much pleasure in perusing it as I did in writing it , and will sympathize with me in the spirit with which it was composed , I shall be ...
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... Letter " was made their pretext . I say mistaken , for , though I wrote it with the most honest purpose , I did not venture to defend the unjust but plausible construction that I had written it to obtain false testimony against a woman ...
... Letter " was made their pretext . I say mistaken , for , though I wrote it with the most honest purpose , I did not venture to defend the unjust but plausible construction that I had written it to obtain false testimony against a woman ...
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... Letters - nothing survives so entirely the wreck and waste of time as these daily and delightful records of human experience . It is said that the journal of John Quincy Adams is the best monument of his stupendous industry . He kept it ...
... Letters - nothing survives so entirely the wreck and waste of time as these daily and delightful records of human experience . It is said that the journal of John Quincy Adams is the best monument of his stupendous industry . He kept it ...
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... letter , but I did not proceed because I know you assumed the responsi- bility that belonged to another . " It is needless to add that the Secretary of State was as much relieved as I was by the majestical Missouri Senator .. Although ...
... letter , but I did not proceed because I know you assumed the responsi- bility that belonged to another . " It is needless to add that the Secretary of State was as much relieved as I was by the majestical Missouri Senator .. Although ...
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... letter in relation to this famous Forrest letter , so much misconstrued . He would have read this letter in the House , but there was no necessity for it . He would now read it , however , as he knew those present would like to hear it ...
... letter in relation to this famous Forrest letter , so much misconstrued . He would have read this letter in the House , but there was no necessity for it . He would now read it , however , as he knew those present would like to hear it ...
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