The Union Text Book: Containing Selections from the Writings of Daniel Webster : the Declaration of Independence : the Constitution of the United States : and Washington's Farewell Address : with Copious Indexes : for the Higher Classes of Educational Institutions, and for Home Reading |
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... principles advocated . All this belongs to the future , and history will assign each great name the measure of its enduring fame . - - Mr. WEBSTER was conspicuous not only among the most illustrious men in the halls of legislation , but ...
... principles advocated . All this belongs to the future , and history will assign each great name the measure of its enduring fame . - - Mr. WEBSTER was conspicuous not only among the most illustrious men in the halls of legislation , but ...
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... principles of civil and religious liberty , which they encountered the dangers of the ocean , the storms of heaven , the violence of savages , disease , exile , and fam- ine , to enjoy and to establish . And we would leave here , also ...
... principles of civil and religious liberty , which they encountered the dangers of the ocean , the storms of heaven , the violence of savages , disease , exile , and fam- ine , to enjoy and to establish . And we would leave here , also ...
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... principle of toleration , to which the world has come so slowly , is at once the most just and the most wise of all principles . Even when religious feeling takes a character of extravagance and enthusiasm , and seems to threaten the ...
... principle of toleration , to which the world has come so slowly , is at once the most just and the most wise of all principles . Even when religious feeling takes a character of extravagance and enthusiasm , and seems to threaten the ...
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... her first breath the inspiration of liberty , her first principle the truth of divine religion ? Local attachments and sympathies would ere long spring up in the breasts of our ancestors , endearing to SELECTIONS FROM WEBSTER . 19.
... her first breath the inspiration of liberty , her first principle the truth of divine religion ? Local attachments and sympathies would ere long spring up in the breasts of our ancestors , endearing to SELECTIONS FROM WEBSTER . 19.
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... principles were firm , and her moral habits exemplary . Her public schools had begun to diffuse widely the elements of knowledge ; and the College , under the excellent and acceptable administra- tion of Leverett , had been raised to a ...
... principles were firm , and her moral habits exemplary . Her public schools had begun to diffuse widely the elements of knowledge ; and the College , under the excellent and acceptable administra- tion of Leverett , had been raised to a ...
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