The Works of William H. Seward, Volume 3Houghton, Mifflin, 1884 |
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Page 11
... measure , and the greatness of finances and revenue doth fall under computa- tion . The population may appear by numbers , and the number and greatness of cities and towns by cards and maps . But yet NOTE - This discourse was delivered ...
... measure , and the greatness of finances and revenue doth fall under computa- tion . The population may appear by numbers , and the number and greatness of cities and towns by cards and maps . But yet NOTE - This discourse was delivered ...
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... measure of civil liberty and national prosperity before unknown . The effect at home was electrical . A vast multitude gathered around the halls of Congress , and received the Declaration with unbounded acclamations , while the ...
... measure of civil liberty and national prosperity before unknown . The effect at home was electrical . A vast multitude gathered around the halls of Congress , and received the Declaration with unbounded acclamations , while the ...
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... measures , moderate and humane in mitigating the calamities . and sufferings of the most fearful civil war the world has ever witnessed , and at all times , on all occasions , amid all trials , and all temptations , unswerving ...
... measures , moderate and humane in mitigating the calamities . and sufferings of the most fearful civil war the world has ever witnessed , and at all times , on all occasions , amid all trials , and all temptations , unswerving ...
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... measure , to the same despotic system ; and so there were , you see , insuperable objec- tions to the restoration of the Napoleon dynasty . We could not safely proclaim a republic . We had no republican army to rely upon , nor could ...
... measure , to the same despotic system ; and so there were , you see , insuperable objec- tions to the restoration of the Napoleon dynasty . We could not safely proclaim a republic . We had no republican army to rely upon , nor could ...
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... measures were expected , therefore , to be more severe on the former than on the latter , and , unhap- pily , they ... measure of exasperations , by insolently searching our vessels on the high seas , and impressing into her marine all ...
... measures were expected , therefore , to be more severe on the former than on the latter , and , unhap- pily , they ... measure of exasperations , by insolently searching our vessels on the high seas , and impressing into her marine all ...
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