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Reason teaches us that the barn - yard fowl is a more meritorious bird than the game - cock ; but the imagination does not assent to the proposition . Clay was at once game - cock and domestic fowl . His gestures called to mind the ...
Reason teaches us that the barn - yard fowl is a more meritorious bird than the game - cock ; but the imagination does not assent to the proposition . Clay was at once game - cock and domestic fowl . His gestures called to mind the ...
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And this was a prin . cipal reason of the former supremacy of Southern men in Washington ; nearly all of them being men who owned land , which slaves tilled for them , whether they were present or absent .
And this was a prin . cipal reason of the former supremacy of Southern men in Washington ; nearly all of them being men who owned land , which slaves tilled for them , whether they were present or absent .
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... for when he looks abroad over the great assemblage of sovereignties which he calls the United States , and asks himself the reason of their rapid and uniform prosperity for the last eighty years , what answer can he give but this ?
... for when he looks abroad over the great assemblage of sovereignties which he calls the United States , and asks himself the reason of their rapid and uniform prosperity for the last eighty years , what answer can he give but this ?
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Now it was a fact well known to Jackson , that Henry Clay had expected the appointment of Secretary of State under Mr. Monroe ; and it was part of the gossip of the time that Mr. Monroe's preference of Mr. Adams was the reason of Clay's ...
Now it was a fact well known to Jackson , that Henry Clay had expected the appointment of Secretary of State under Mr. Monroe ; and it was part of the gossip of the time that Mr. Monroe's preference of Mr. Adams was the reason of Clay's ...
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And yet again : “ There are those who think that the Union must be preserved by an exclusive reliance upon love and reason . That is not my opinion . I have some confidence in this instrumentality ; but , depend upon it that no human ...
And yet again : “ There are those who think that the Union must be preserved by an exclusive reliance upon love and reason . That is not my opinion . I have some confidence in this instrumentality ; but , depend upon it that no human ...
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| Назва | Famous Americans of Recent Times |
| Автор | James Parton |
| Опубліковано | 1893 |
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