Landmarks of Liberty: The Growth of American Political Ideals as Recorded in Speeches from Otis to Hughes, Ed. with Introduction and Notes |
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... conference ended without material change in the proposed bill which was passed by the House of Com- mons with slight opposition in March 1765 . This act was planned to furnish a revenue of $ 300,000 , all of which was to be applied ...
... conference ended without material change in the proposed bill which was passed by the House of Com- mons with slight opposition in March 1765 . This act was planned to furnish a revenue of $ 300,000 , all of which was to be applied ...
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... conference , liberty and democracy found thereafter their haven in the freedom - loving lands of England and France , while autocracy and absolutism were nour- ished in Germany , Austria , and Russia . France de- veloped a republican ...
... conference , liberty and democracy found thereafter their haven in the freedom - loving lands of England and France , while autocracy and absolutism were nour- ished in Germany , Austria , and Russia . France de- veloped a republican ...
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... conference between the four powers who were not directly concerned - Ger- many , France , Italy , and ourselves . If that proposal had been accepted , actual controversy would have been settled with honor to everybody , the whole of ...
... conference between the four powers who were not directly concerned - Ger- many , France , Italy , and ourselves . If that proposal had been accepted , actual controversy would have been settled with honor to everybody , the whole of ...
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... conference table when the terms of peace are being discussed . That conference will settle the destiny of nations - the course of human life - for God knows how many ages . It would have been tragic for mankind if America had not been ...
... conference table when the terms of peace are being discussed . That conference will settle the destiny of nations - the course of human life - for God knows how many ages . It would have been tragic for mankind if America had not been ...
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... conference table with them . Her present Chancellor has said - in indefinite and uncertain terms , indeed , and in phrases that often seem to deny their own meaning , but with as much plainness as he thought prudent - that he believed ...
... conference table with them . Her present Chancellor has said - in indefinite and uncertain terms , indeed , and in phrases that often seem to deny their own meaning , but with as much plainness as he thought prudent - that he believed ...
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