Library of Universal Literature: In Four Parts, Comprising Science, Biography, Fiction and the Great Orations, Volume 15P. F. Collier, 1900 |
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... duty which forbade you from meeting on the third day of the week have forbidden you from meeting on the seventh ? Is not the same subject held up to your view ? and has it not passed the seal of office , and taken all the solemnity of ...
... duty which forbade you from meeting on the third day of the week have forbidden you from meeting on the seventh ? Is not the same subject held up to your view ? and has it not passed the seal of office , and taken all the solemnity of ...
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... duty ; as I have been the constant companion and witness of your distresses , and not among the last to feel and acknowledge your merits ; as I have ever considered my own military reputation as insepa- rably connected with that of the ...
... duty ; as I have been the constant companion and witness of your distresses , and not among the last to feel and acknowledge your merits ; as I have ever considered my own military reputation as insepa- rably connected with that of the ...
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... duty I owe my country and those powers we are bound to respect , you may fully command my services to the utmost extent of my abilities . " While I give you these assurances , and pledge myself in the most unequivocal manner to exert ...
... duty I owe my country and those powers we are bound to respect , you may fully command my services to the utmost extent of my abilities . " While I give you these assurances , and pledge myself in the most unequivocal manner to exert ...
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... duty and gratitude , spontaneously offered myself as an advocate for their rights ; and having been requested to write to your Excellency , earnestly entreating the most speedy decision of Congress upon the subjects of the late address ...
... duty and gratitude , spontaneously offered myself as an advocate for their rights ; and having been requested to write to your Excellency , earnestly entreating the most speedy decision of Congress upon the subjects of the late address ...
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... duties of the citizen , it was to be called " The Society of the Cincinnati . " The objects proposed by it were to preserve inviolate the rights and liberties for which they had contended ; to promote and cherish national honor and ...
... duties of the citizen , it was to be called " The Society of the Cincinnati . " The objects proposed by it were to preserve inviolate the rights and liberties for which they had contended ; to promote and cherish national honor and ...
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