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A class-book of English prose, with biogr. notices, explanatory notes and ... - Page 324
edited by - 1859
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Principles and Acts of the Revolution in America: Or, An Attempt to Collect ...

Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 514 pages
...to auspicate all our public proceedings on America, with the old warning o' the church, SUBSCM comu! We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of...adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestor* have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious NEWBEBF, (NOBTH CAUOLIJC A) SejW.20, 1775....
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Principles and Acts of the Revolution in America: Or, An Attempt to Collect ...

Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 518 pages
...warning of the church, suascM CORDA! We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness ofthat trust to whicl the order of Providence has called us. By adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our anees•tora bave turned a lavage wilderness into a glorious • npirr; and have made the most extensile,...
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Exercises in Reading and Recitation

Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...auspicate all our public proceedings on America, with the old warning of the church, ^Sursum corda! We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of...empire; and have made the most extensive, and the only honorable conquests; not by destroying, but by promoting, the wealth, the number, the happiness, of...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...church, sttrewm cor! We ought to elevate our minds ro the greatness of that trust to which the or: ile asleep with the apprehensions of devils and wicked spirit?, who, as I then r ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire : and have made ; most extensive,...
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The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 648 pages
...auspicate all our public proceedings on America, with the old warning of the church, Sursum corda! d Pn>viJfince has called us. By adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned...
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The History of England, Volume 2

Thomas Smart Hughes - Great Britain - 1835 - 364 pages
...If we are conscious of our situation, and glow with zeal to fill our place as becomes our station, we ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of...empire, and have made the most extensive and the only honorable conquests ; not by destroying, but by promoting, the wealth, the number, and the happiness...
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The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 34

Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1838 - 604 pages
...to auspicate all our public proceedings in America with the old warning of the church, Sursum corda! We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of...wilderness into a glorious empire; and have made 'the most ex, and the only honourable conquests; not by destroying, but by promoting, the wealth, the number,...
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The National Preceptor: Or, Selections in Prose and Poetry; Consisting of ...

Jesse Olney - Readers - 1838 - 346 pages
...auspicate all our public proceedings on America, with the old warning of the church, Sursum corda'.* We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of...trust to which the order of Providence has called us. 12. By adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness...
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The Monthly Chronicle, Volume 6

1840 - 588 pages
...auspieate all our public proceedings on America with the old warning of the church, ' Sarsum corda ! ' We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has ealled us. By adverting to the dignity of this high ealling, our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness...
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Lectures on Modern History: From the Irruption of the Northern ..., Volume 2

William Smyth - History, Modern - 1840 - 514 pages
...auspicate all our public proceedings on America, with the old warning of the church, Sursum corda! We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which Providence has called us. By adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned...
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