Living Letters from American HistoryEdward Boykin |
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... hope , of an auspicious session . It certainly may be classed with the important questions of the present day , and merited the serious attention of the Assembly . Fain would I hope , that the great and most important of all subjects ...
... hope , of an auspicious session . It certainly may be classed with the important questions of the present day , and merited the serious attention of the Assembly . Fain would I hope , that the great and most important of all subjects ...
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... hope you have been mistaken , and that it is not possible for him to have been guilty of so great duplicity . There is no circumstance which has occurred in the course of our political affairs , that has given me so much pain as the ...
... hope you have been mistaken , and that it is not possible for him to have been guilty of so great duplicity . There is no circumstance which has occurred in the course of our political affairs , that has given me so much pain as the ...
Page 323
... hope of doing good among the fools and dupes and knaves with whom it is my misfortune to live , should war take place between your country and mine . I need not tell you who are much better acquainted with modern history than I am ...
... hope of doing good among the fools and dupes and knaves with whom it is my misfortune to live , should war take place between your country and mine . I need not tell you who are much better acquainted with modern history than I am ...
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refuses to answer a letter and loses thirteen fine | 9 |
Benjamin Franklin makes a freak suggestion | 15 |
John Adams writes his wife news of the Declaration of Inde | 21 |
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