Famous American Statesmen & Orators, Past and Present: With Biographical Sketches and Their Famous Orations, Volume 6F.F. Lovell Publishing Company, 1902 |
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... Question , " " The Life of Logan , " " One of the People " ( McKinley ) , “ Monroe and His Doctrine , " etc. NEW YORK F. F. LOVELL PUBLISHING COMPANY THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 189799B ASTOR , LENOX AND FAMOUS AMERICAN ...
... Question , " " The Life of Logan , " " One of the People " ( McKinley ) , “ Monroe and His Doctrine , " etc. NEW YORK F. F. LOVELL PUBLISHING COMPANY THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 189799B ASTOR , LENOX AND FAMOUS AMERICAN ...
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... question real statesman- ship asks is : What are the abiding characteristics of my people ? From that basis all reasoning may be natural and true . From any other basis all reasoning must be artificial and false . The sovereign ...
... question real statesman- ship asks is : What are the abiding characteristics of my people ? From that basis all reasoning may be natural and true . From any other basis all reasoning must be artificial and false . The sovereign ...
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... fully into so great a question . Yet I may at least say that it would ill become me , as a representative of the United States , to impute to Grotius , as a fault , a the- ory out of which sprang the nationality of my coun- WHITE . 35.
... fully into so great a question . Yet I may at least say that it would ill become me , as a representative of the United States , to impute to Grotius , as a fault , a the- ory out of which sprang the nationality of my coun- WHITE . 35.
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... question of its meaning here . The Church , with us and for the present occasion , at any rate , is this Church whose sons we are , whose Orders we bear , in whose Convention we sit , whose Bishop we mourn , and whose Bishop you are ...
... question of its meaning here . The Church , with us and for the present occasion , at any rate , is this Church whose sons we are , whose Orders we bear , in whose Convention we sit , whose Bishop we mourn , and whose Bishop you are ...
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... question for the Episcopate , as it ought to be the supreme question with the Min- istry of any and every order . And therefore it is , I affirm , that , in bringing into the Episcopate with such unique vividness and power this ...
... question for the Episcopate , as it ought to be the supreme question with the Min- istry of any and every order . And therefore it is , I affirm , that , in bringing into the Episcopate with such unique vividness and power this ...
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Page 379 - I designed to have done the same thing again on a larger scale. That was all I intended. I never did intend murder, or treason, or the destruction of property, or to excite or incite slaves to rebellion, or to make insurrection.
Page 217 - Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live forever?
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