The Works of William H. Seward, Volume 4Houghton, Mifflin, 1888 - Legislators |
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... Human Nature as especially committed to the care of the people of the United States . " To disseminate knowledge and to increase virtue , " he maintains , " is to establish the principles on which the recovery and preservation of the ...
... Human Nature as especially committed to the care of the people of the United States . " To disseminate knowledge and to increase virtue , " he maintains , " is to establish the principles on which the recovery and preservation of the ...
Page 42
... human nature . The following extracts from the platform adopted by this convention contain the essential principles of the new party : " Resolved , That , with our republican fathers , we hold it to be a self - evident truth , that all ...
... human nature . The following extracts from the platform adopted by this convention contain the essential principles of the new party : " Resolved , That , with our republican fathers , we hold it to be a self - evident truth , that all ...
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... human liberty , " he wrote , " may for a season be divided , and range themselves under different banners , but time will speedily indicate a rallying ground , and that ground being once gained , they will be invincible . " There is no ...
... human liberty , " he wrote , " may for a season be divided , and range themselves under different banners , but time will speedily indicate a rallying ground , and that ground being once gained , they will be invincible . " There is no ...
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... humanity , they are still but my fellow laborers in the vineyard . I can say the same of New Hamp- shire , that I know ... human rights . I am their equal ; I have received their cordial welcome as an expression of esteem and kindness ...
... humanity , they are still but my fellow laborers in the vineyard . I can say the same of New Hamp- shire , that I know ... human rights . I am their equal ; I have received their cordial welcome as an expression of esteem and kindness ...
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... humanity , and look to you for instruction in the great principles of civil liberty and equal rights . " We believe in a ... human progress you cannot fail to be an earnest and sincere friend to the cause of education . We should have re ...
... humanity , and look to you for instruction in the great principles of civil liberty and equal rights . " We believe in a ... human progress you cannot fail to be an earnest and sincere friend to the cause of education . We should have re ...
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