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Page 19
... charge I found she repelled it with greater firmness than before . I tried it again and again , but with the same success , or rather with the same want of success . I finally was forced to give it up , at which I very unexpectedly ...
... charge I found she repelled it with greater firmness than before . I tried it again and again , but with the same success , or rather with the same want of success . I finally was forced to give it up , at which I very unexpectedly ...
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... charge that the money will be stolen fully if they can show that they will bring the offenders to punishment . Not so . Will the punishment of the thief bring back the stolen money ? No more so than the hanging of a murderer restores ...
... charge that the money will be stolen fully if they can show that they will bring the offenders to punishment . Not so . Will the punishment of the thief bring back the stolen money ? No more so than the hanging of a murderer restores ...
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... charge of extravagant expenditures equally well sustained , if shown to have been made by a Van Buren Congress , as ... charges , we say , could not exceed one or two millions a year . Deduct such a sum from the forty - million ...
... charge of extravagant expenditures equally well sustained , if shown to have been made by a Van Buren Congress , as ... charges , we say , could not exceed one or two millions a year . Deduct such a sum from the forty - million ...
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... charge upon the treasury , whereas under Mr. Adams and the presi- dents before him it not only , to use a homely phrase , cut its own fodder , but actually threw a surplus into the treasury . Although nothing of the forty millions was ...
... charge upon the treasury , whereas under Mr. Adams and the presi- dents before him it not only , to use a homely phrase , cut its own fodder , but actually threw a surplus into the treasury . Although nothing of the forty millions was ...
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... charged in some of the public prints that Harry Wilton , late United States marshal for the district of Illinois , had used ... charge . We accompanied Mr. Wil- ton to a room , and examined the matter as fully as we could with the means ...
... charged in some of the public prints that Harry Wilton , late United States marshal for the district of Illinois , had used ... charge . We accompanied Mr. Wil- ton to a room , and examined the matter as fully as we could with the means ...
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