12 Americans SpeakJohn Edwin Pomfret Huntington Library, 1954 - 183 pages |
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... object , which fuch forts are raised to defend . Such was our fituation and condition at fort Lee on the morning of the 20th of November , when an officer arrived with information , that the enemy with 200 boats had landed about feven ...
... object , which fuch forts are raised to defend . Such was our fituation and condition at fort Lee on the morning of the 20th of November , when an officer arrived with information , that the enemy with 200 boats had landed about feven ...
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... object in view but the GOOD of ALL , have staked their OWN ALL upon a feemingly doubtful event . Yet it is folly to argue against determined hardness ; eloquence may strike the ear , and the language of forrow draw forth the tear of ...
... object in view but the GOOD of ALL , have staked their OWN ALL upon a feemingly doubtful event . Yet it is folly to argue against determined hardness ; eloquence may strike the ear , and the language of forrow draw forth the tear of ...
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... object will be frustrated by taking time ; but no good object can be frustrated by it . Such of you as are now dissatisfied , still have the old Constitu- tion unimpaired , and , on the sensitive point , the laws of your own framing ...
... object will be frustrated by taking time ; but no good object can be frustrated by it . Such of you as are now dissatisfied , still have the old Constitu- tion unimpaired , and , on the sensitive point , the laws of your own framing ...
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