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... expect the approach of danger ? By what means shall we fortify against it ? Shall we expect some transatlantic mili- tary giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow ? Never ! All the armies of Europe , Asia , and Africa combined ...
... expect the approach of danger ? By what means shall we fortify against it ? Shall we expect some transatlantic mili- tary giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow ? Never ! All the armies of Europe , Asia , and Africa combined ...
Page 15
... expect that some man possessed of the loftiest genius , coupled with ambition sufficient to push it to its utmost stretch , will at some time spring up among us ? And when such an one does , it will require the people to be united with ...
... expect that some man possessed of the loftiest genius , coupled with ambition sufficient to push it to its utmost stretch , will at some time spring up among us ? And when such an one does , it will require the people to be united with ...
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... expect you will at some time , be agonized and distressed , let me , who have some reason to speak with judgment on such a subject , beseech you to ascribe it to the causes I have mentioned , and not to some false and ruinous suggestion ...
... expect you will at some time , be agonized and distressed , let me , who have some reason to speak with judgment on such a subject , beseech you to ascribe it to the causes I have mentioned , and not to some false and ruinous suggestion ...
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... expect a reversal of human nature , which is God's decree and can never be reversed . When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced , persuasion , kind , unassuming persuasion , should ever be adopted . It is an old and a true ...
... expect a reversal of human nature , which is God's decree and can never be reversed . When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced , persuasion , kind , unassuming persuasion , should ever be adopted . It is an old and a true ...
Page 36
... expect a whole community to rise up and labor for the temporal happiness of others , after themselves shall be con- signed to the dust , a majority of which community take no pains whatever to secure their own eternal welfare at no more ...
... expect a whole community to rise up and labor for the temporal happiness of others , after themselves shall be con- signed to the dust , a majority of which community take no pains whatever to secure their own eternal welfare at no more ...
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