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... appeared in print in 1836 , a quarter of a century before the occurrence of the events it describes . One year after his friend William Gilmore Sinms published The Partisan , a romance of the American Revolution , Tucker published ...
... appeared in print in 1836 , a quarter of a century before the occurrence of the events it describes . One year after his friend William Gilmore Sinms published The Partisan , a romance of the American Revolution , Tucker published ...
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... appeared not in the heat of the constitutional crises that wracked the nation after the Mexican War , but in the relatively calm years of the middle 1830s . ( It appeared more than three years after the end of the nullification movement ...
... appeared not in the heat of the constitutional crises that wracked the nation after the Mexican War , but in the relatively calm years of the middle 1830s . ( It appeared more than three years after the end of the nullification movement ...
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... all these were symptoms of the effect of the expansion of social democracy on imaginative men . It no accident that all of these statements appeared in the 1830s and that all reflected an uneasy feeling that America 215.
... all these were symptoms of the effect of the expansion of social democracy on imaginative men . It no accident that all of these statements appeared in the 1830s and that all reflected an uneasy feeling that America 215.
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