Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1852-1867Little, Brown,, 1867 - United States |
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... things , when I have been called upon to say any thing . Like those in the previous volume , they are given here just as they were spoken , and many of them printed , at the time ; with no other change than the correction of a few ...
... things , when I have been called upon to say any thing . Like those in the previous volume , they are given here just as they were spoken , and many of them printed , at the time ; with no other change than the correction of a few ...
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... things . These , then , were among the main moving principles which brought the Pilgrims to Plymouth Rock , in 1620 , - " the obser- vation of the Lord's Day as a Sabbath , " and the ... thing more 2 RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION FOR THE YOUNG .
... things . These , then , were among the main moving principles which brought the Pilgrims to Plymouth Rock , in 1620 , - " the obser- vation of the Lord's Day as a Sabbath , " and the ... thing more 2 RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION FOR THE YOUNG .
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... thing more necessary to com- plete his claim upon us as a political party , and that is , that he should be a sound , National , Union Whig . And that we all know he is , and has been from his earliest youth . And he has given one proof ...
... thing more necessary to com- plete his claim upon us as a political party , and that is , that he should be a sound , National , Union Whig . And that we all know he is , and has been from his earliest youth . And he has given one proof ...
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... thing of formal or ceremonious discourse . It is not by words of wisdom or of dulness , it is not by argu- ments forcible or feeble , it is not by appeals animated or vapid , it is not by pathos or by bathos , that an occasion like this ...
... thing of formal or ceremonious discourse . It is not by words of wisdom or of dulness , it is not by argu- ments forcible or feeble , it is not by appeals animated or vapid , it is not by pathos or by bathos , that an occasion like this ...
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... thing to do with that mighty moral power , of whose edicts legislatures are so often but the formal recorders , and laws but the periodical proclamation , which construes constitutions , controls standing armies , supports or overturns ...
... thing to do with that mighty moral power , of whose edicts legislatures are so often but the formal recorders , and laws but the periodical proclamation , which construes constitutions , controls standing armies , supports or overturns ...
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