Lectures on the Growth and Development of the United States: Illustrated, Volume 4Edwin Wiley, Irving Everett Rines, Albert Bushnell Hart American Educational Alliance, 1916 - United States |
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... says : " So cogent were these motives and so forcibly were they com- pressed within the compass of this preamble , and in the Letter from President Washington to the President of Congress , that this body immediately and unanimously ...
... says : " So cogent were these motives and so forcibly were they com- pressed within the compass of this preamble , and in the Letter from President Washington to the President of Congress , that this body immediately and unanimously ...
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... says : " The friends and enemies of that instrument were stimulated to exertion by motives equally powerful ; and , during the interval between its publication and adoption , every faculty of the mind was strained to secure its ...
... says : " The friends and enemies of that instrument were stimulated to exertion by motives equally powerful ; and , during the interval between its publication and adoption , every faculty of the mind was strained to secure its ...
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... says that " the interesting nature of the ques- tion , the equality of the parties , the animation produced inevitably by ardent debate , had a necessary tend- ency to embitter the dispositions of the vanquished , and to fix more deeply ...
... says that " the interesting nature of the ques- tion , the equality of the parties , the animation produced inevitably by ardent debate , had a necessary tend- ency to embitter the dispositions of the vanquished , and to fix more deeply ...
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... says : " A deeper interest was involved in the decision of Virginia , than in that of any other member of the Confederacy , and in no State had the opposi- tion to the plan been so deep , so extensive , so formidable as there . Two of ...
... says : " A deeper interest was involved in the decision of Virginia , than in that of any other member of the Confederacy , and in no State had the opposi- tion to the plan been so deep , so extensive , so formidable as there . Two of ...
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... says : " The greatest orator of his time , the master who could sway Virginia audiences as no other man could , who had become habituated to success with them and had on this occasion exerted his marvelous powers , as he had never ...
... says : " The greatest orator of his time , the master who could sway Virginia audiences as no other man could , who had become habituated to success with them and had on this occasion exerted his marvelous powers , as he had never ...
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