Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions, Том 1C.C. Little and J. Brown, 1850 |
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... is too magnificent to be fully borne ; - a mass of two or three hundred millions , not chained to the oar , like the same number in China , by a VOL . I. 5 stupefying despotism , but held in their several orbits of AMERICAN LITERATURE . 33.
... is too magnificent to be fully borne ; - a mass of two or three hundred millions , not chained to the oar , like the same number in China , by a VOL . I. 5 stupefying despotism , but held in their several orbits of AMERICAN LITERATURE . 33.
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... hundred years of our existence , the population has doubled itself in periods of less than a quarter of a century . In the infancy of the country , and while it remained within the limits of a youthful colony , a progress so rapid as ...
... hundred years of our existence , the population has doubled itself in periods of less than a quarter of a century . In the infancy of the country , and while it remained within the limits of a youthful colony , a progress so rapid as ...
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... hundred miles from the capital of Grecian refinement , as they were in Scythia . Thrace , whose mountain tops may almost be seen from the porch of the temple of Minerva , at Sunium , was the proverbial abode of barbarism . Though the ...
... hundred miles from the capital of Grecian refinement , as they were in Scythia . Thrace , whose mountain tops may almost be seen from the porch of the temple of Minerva , at Sunium , was the proverbial abode of barbarism . Though the ...
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... hundred years afterwards , the first naval commander who ever sailed round the earth , enjoying the advantage of the royal patronage , and of no little personal experience , embarked on his voyage of circumnavigation with five vessels ...
... hundred years afterwards , the first naval commander who ever sailed round the earth , enjoying the advantage of the royal patronage , and of no little personal experience , embarked on his voyage of circumnavigation with five vessels ...
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... hundred years , this example was followed and improved upon by the princes in Germany who espoused the Protestant Reformation of Luther , ' and in a still more decisive manner by Henry the Eighth in England ; at which period we may ...
... hundred years , this example was followed and improved upon by the princes in Germany who espoused the Protestant Reformation of Luther , ' and in a still more decisive manner by Henry the Eighth in England ; at which period we may ...
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Adams America ancient arms army arts barbarous behold beneath blood Boston British British army called cause century character Charlestown citizens civilized coast colonies commencement Committee of Safety Congress Connecticut River constitution continent cultivated despotism discovery duty effect empire England establishment Europe existence Faneuil Hall fathers favor feelings fellow-citizens fortune France French French revolution friends furnished Greece hand happy heart honor human hundred improvement independence Indians influence institutions intellectual interest John Adams John Harvard knowledge labor Lafayette land Lexington liberty living Louisburg Massachusetts ment mighty military mind moral nations native nature never occasion Olmütz party passed patriotic peace period political population portion present principles progress prosperity pursuit race region revolution Samuel Adams savage settlement slave society soil Spain spirit spot thing thousand tion town tribes United venerable Washington
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