Father Past and Child Nation: The Romantic Imagination and the Origins of the American Civil War |
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... Webster after the latter's famous Seventh of March speech supporting the Com- promise of 1850 , the three men held similar views on most political and social questions of the age . Daniel Webster , the oldest of the three and the most ...
... Webster after the latter's famous Seventh of March speech supporting the Com- promise of 1850 , the three men held similar views on most political and social questions of the age . Daniel Webster , the oldest of the three and the most ...
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... Webster , and , later , Abraham Lincoln , would fuse the real world with the dream life of the golden age . 3 Seeing the great men to their graves , the " whole family of Americans " united in bidding a sentimental fare- well to the ...
... Webster , and , later , Abraham Lincoln , would fuse the real world with the dream life of the golden age . 3 Seeing the great men to their graves , the " whole family of Americans " united in bidding a sentimental fare- well to the ...
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... Webster was survived by his friend Choate , who wist- fully imagined what Webster might have become had he been a father and not the obedient son that he was . " Called to act in a time so troubled and high " as that of the fathers ...
... Webster was survived by his friend Choate , who wist- fully imagined what Webster might have become had he been a father and not the obedient son that he was . " Called to act in a time so troubled and high " as that of the fathers ...
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