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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... millions of inhabi- tants of our own European blood and color , besides at least 500,000 others who form no inconsiderable part of the strength and opulence of the whole . This , Sir , is , I believe , about the true number . There is ...
... millions of inhabi- tants of our own European blood and color , besides at least 500,000 others who form no inconsiderable part of the strength and opulence of the whole . This , Sir , is , I believe , about the true number . There is ...
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... millions , we shall find we have millions more to manage . Your children do not grow faster from infancy to manhood than they spread from families to communities , and from villages to nations . 16. I put this consideration of the ...
... millions , we shall find we have millions more to manage . Your children do not grow faster from infancy to manhood than they spread from families to communities , and from villages to nations . 16. I put this consideration of the ...
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... millions which in the beginning of the century constituted the whole mass of our export commerce , the colony trade was but one - twelfth part : it is now , as a part of sixteen millions , considerably more than a third of the whole ...
... millions which in the beginning of the century constituted the whole mass of our export commerce , the colony trade was but one - twelfth part : it is now , as a part of sixteen millions , considerably more than a third of the whole ...
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... million in value . Of their last harvest , I am persuaded they will export much more . At the beginning of the century some of these colonies imported corn from the Mother Country ; for some time past the Old World has been fed from the ...
... million in value . Of their last harvest , I am persuaded they will export much more . At the beginning of the century some of these colonies imported corn from the Mother Country ; for some time past the Old World has been fed from the ...
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... millions of my fellow- creatures as Sir Edward Coke insulted one excellent individual , Sir Walter Raleigh , at the bar . I hope I am not ripe to pass sentence on the gravest public bodies , intrusted with magistracies of great ...
... millions of my fellow- creatures as Sir Edward Coke insulted one excellent individual , Sir Walter Raleigh , at the bar . I hope I am not ripe to pass sentence on the gravest public bodies , intrusted with magistracies of great ...
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