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... hope that my undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose . You might , and I suppose did perceive , from the tenor of my letters , that I was apprehensive I could not avoid this ap- pointment , as I did not pretend to ...
... hope that my undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose . You might , and I suppose did perceive , from the tenor of my letters , that I was apprehensive I could not avoid this ap- pointment , as I did not pretend to ...
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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 ...
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George Washington writes his wife of his selection as Com | 3 |
refuses to answer a letter and loses thirteen fine | 9 |
Benjamin Franklin makes a freak suggestion | 15 |
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