The Life, Eulogy, and Great Orations of Daniel WebsterW.M. Hayward & Company, 1853 - 112 pages |
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... ancestors having early emigrated from England , and settled in Massachusetts . Discovering early a strong love of reading and of knowl- edge , together with marks of great strength and activity of mind , proper care was taken by his ...
... ancestors having early emigrated from England , and settled in Massachusetts . Discovering early a strong love of reading and of knowl- edge , together with marks of great strength and activity of mind , proper care was taken by his ...
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... ancestors , in consenting to exile themselves from their native land , were actuated , mainly , by the desire of delivering themselves from the power of the hierarchy , and from the monarchial and aristocratical political systems of the ...
... ancestors , in consenting to exile themselves from their native land , were actuated , mainly , by the desire of delivering themselves from the power of the hierarchy , and from the monarchial and aristocratical political systems of the ...
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... ancestors who had been settled in Virginia for some generations , was born near the spot on which he died , in the county of Albermale , on the 2d of April , ( Old Style , ) 1743. His youth- ful studies were pursued in the neighborhood ...
... ancestors who had been settled in Virginia for some generations , was born near the spot on which he died , in the county of Albermale , on the 2d of April , ( Old Style , ) 1743. His youth- ful studies were pursued in the neighborhood ...
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... ancestors had never admitted themselves subject either to ministers or to Parliament , there were no reasons to be given for now refusing obedience to their authority . This clear and obvious necessity of founding the Declaration on the ...
... ancestors had never admitted themselves subject either to ministers or to Parliament , there were no reasons to be given for now refusing obedience to their authority . This clear and obvious necessity of founding the Declaration on the ...
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... ancestors and our posterity . Human and mortal although we are , we are nevertheless not mere insulated beings , without relation to the past or the future . Neither the point of time , nor the spot of earth , in which we physically ...
... ancestors and our posterity . Human and mortal although we are , we are nevertheless not mere insulated beings , without relation to the past or the future . Neither the point of time , nor the spot of earth , in which we physically ...
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