A Library of Universal Literature: In 4 Parts, Comprising Science, Biography, Fiction and the Great Orations. Pt.3: Orations, Band 6Collier, 1900 |
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... body . He took , however , a leading , if a silent part in the struggles of the House of Burgesses against Governor Dunmore . In 1774 the Virginia Convention appointed Washington one of its seven delegates to the Continental Congress ...
... body . He took , however , a leading , if a silent part in the struggles of the House of Burgesses against Governor Dunmore . In 1774 the Virginia Convention appointed Washington one of its seven delegates to the Continental Congress ...
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... body . He was a member of the committee which framed the Declaration of Independence and one of the most powerful advocates of its adoption . It was he who in the pre- vious year ( 1775 ) had proposed the appointment of George ...
... body . He was a member of the committee which framed the Declaration of Independence and one of the most powerful advocates of its adoption . It was he who in the pre- vious year ( 1775 ) had proposed the appointment of George ...
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... body of the people . And what object of consideration more pleasing than this can be presented to the human mind ? If natural pride is ever justifiable or excusable , it is when it springs , not from power or riches , grandeur or glory ...
... body of the people . And what object of consideration more pleasing than this can be presented to the human mind ? If natural pride is ever justifiable or excusable , it is when it springs , not from power or riches , grandeur or glory ...
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... body , are decayed . If , sir , amendments are left to the twentieth , or tenth part of the people of America , your liberty is gone forever . We have heard that there is a great deal of bribery practiced in the House of Commons in ...
... body , are decayed . If , sir , amendments are left to the twentieth , or tenth part of the people of America , your liberty is gone forever . We have heard that there is a great deal of bribery practiced in the House of Commons in ...
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... body . But what mysterious distribution of character has the craft of statesmen , more fatal than priestcraft , introduced ? According to their doctrine , the offspring of perhaps the lewd embraces of a successful invader shall , from ...
... body . But what mysterious distribution of character has the craft of statesmen , more fatal than priestcraft , introduced ? According to their doctrine , the offspring of perhaps the lewd embraces of a successful invader shall , from ...
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