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Liars for Jesus: The Religious Right's Alternate Verson of American History - Page 463
by Chris Rodda - 2006 - 532 pages
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Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 2

James Parton - 1864 - 720 pages
...I hear that they have sold nearly as many of ' Blackstone's Commentaries' in America as in England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly...parts of one of your capital penal constitutions. * * * This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defense, full...
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Congregationalism: What it Is; Whence it Is; how it Works; why it is Better ...

Henry Martyn Dexter - Congregationalism - 1865 - 352 pages
...upon the position of the people with regard to intelligenee, he quotes Governor Gage to the effeet, that " all the people in his government are lawyers, or smatterers in law," and proeeeds himself to charaeterise them as "aeute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in...
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Congregationalism: What it Is; Whence it Is; how it Works; why it is Better ...

Henry Martyn Dexter - Congregationalism - 1865 - 350 pages
...upon the position of the people with regard to intelligence, he quotes Governor Gage to the effect, that " all the people in his government are lawyers, or smatterers in law," and proceeds himself to characterise them as "acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in...
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The literary reader: prose authors, with biogr. notices &c. by H.G. Robinson

Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pages
...use. I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as iu England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly...table. He states, that all the people in his government arc lawyers, or smatterers in law ; and that in Boston they have been enabled, by successful chicane,...
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The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 2

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1869 - 584 pages
...hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's " Commentaries " in America as in England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly...wholly to evade many parts of one of your capital pe nal constitutions. The smartness of debate will say, that this ^nowledge ought to teach them more...
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Congregationalism: What it Is, Whence it Is, how it Works, why it is Better ...

Henry Martyn Dexter - History - 1871 - 426 pages
...upon the position of the people with regard to intelligence, he quotes Governor Gage to the effect, that " all the people in his government are lawyers, or smatterers in law," and proceeds himself to characterise them as " acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in...
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Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a ..., Volume 1

Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1873 - 786 pages
...use. I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly...that in Boston they have been enabled, by successful cbicane, wholly to evade many parts of one of your capital penal constitutions. The smartness of debate...
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Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a ..., Volume 1

Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1873 - 780 pages
...use. I hear that ther have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly...that all the people in his government are lawyers, or smattercrs in law; and that in Boston they have been enabled, by successful chicane, wholly to evade...
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Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1875 - 968 pages
...use. I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly...wholly to evade many parts of one of your capital penal constitutions.16 The smartness of debate will say, that this knowledge ought to teach them more clearly...
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Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes...

Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's " Commentaries" in America as in England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly...parts of one of your capital penal constitutions. BURKE: Speech on Conciliation with America, March 22, 1775. For that service, for all service, whether...
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