The Port Folio, Volume 2Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1809 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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... talents of the editor . To compile the forensic and parliamen- tary eloquence of Europe with a critical and explanatory commentary struck us to be an undertaking , in which , an American physician was not very likely to succeed . We did ...
... talents of the editor . To compile the forensic and parliamen- tary eloquence of Europe with a critical and explanatory commentary struck us to be an undertaking , in which , an American physician was not very likely to succeed . We did ...
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... talent of public speaking so generally prevailed . Eloquence of the highest order and purest kind we may not have attained . But though we have not emulated those lofty strains , and brilliant effusions , which the ancient specimens ...
... talent of public speaking so generally prevailed . Eloquence of the highest order and purest kind we may not have attained . But though we have not emulated those lofty strains , and brilliant effusions , which the ancient specimens ...
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... talents , were , during the revolution , among the conductors and leaders of it , and are , with some exceptions , those of the blacks who occupy the most important stations under the government , particularly in the civil departments ...
... talents , were , during the revolution , among the conductors and leaders of it , and are , with some exceptions , those of the blacks who occupy the most important stations under the government , particularly in the civil departments ...
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... talents and learning are therefore not unfrequently to be found , and it has generally been the knowledge and abilities of these men that have conducted the revolution . Most of them have some information , and many of them were ...
... talents and learning are therefore not unfrequently to be found , and it has generally been the knowledge and abilities of these men that have conducted the revolution . Most of them have some information , and many of them were ...
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... talents . The catastrophe is produced by a new crime of the king who falls by the hand of Hamlet . The guilty are all punished , and though the death of Ophelia be an exception to the rule of poetical justice , yet we cannot consider ...
... talents . The catastrophe is produced by a new crime of the king who falls by the hand of Hamlet . The guilty are all punished , and though the death of Ophelia be an exception to the rule of poetical justice , yet we cannot consider ...
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