The American IdealLongmans, Green and Company, 1936 - 275 pages |
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... western hemisphere and English adventurers struggled to find a route to the East round the frozen coasts of Muscovy or down that steely corridor of dreams , the North - West Passage , English phi- losophers and poets were toying with ...
... western hemisphere and English adventurers struggled to find a route to the East round the frozen coasts of Muscovy or down that steely corridor of dreams , the North - West Passage , English phi- losophers and poets were toying with ...
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... western world . It was a hope expressed by the words of a simple ballad of the time : To the west , to the west , to the land of the Free Where the mighty Missouri rolls down to the sea , Where a man is a man if he's willing to toil ...
... western world . It was a hope expressed by the words of a simple ballad of the time : To the west , to the west , to the land of the Free Where the mighty Missouri rolls down to the sea , Where a man is a man if he's willing to toil ...
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... West , since that of the South and North was already determined . And probably no one in all America knew the West as well as Lincoln . What was as important was that by the accident of early choice he belonged to the Whig Party , which ...
... West , since that of the South and North was already determined . And probably no one in all America knew the West as well as Lincoln . What was as important was that by the accident of early choice he belonged to the Whig Party , which ...
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