The Early American Spirit, and the Genesis of it: An Address Delivered Before the New York Historical Society, at the Celebration of Its Seventieth Anniversary, April 15th, 1875

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A.D.F. Randolph & Company, 1875 - Emigration and immigration - 74 pages
 

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Page 23 - He was a person for study as well as action : and hence, notwithstanding the difficulties through which he passed in his youth, he attained unto a notable skill in languages. The Dutch tongue was become almost as vernacular to him as the English. The French tongue he could also manage. The Latin and Greek he had mastered. But the Hebrew, he most of all studied, Because, he said, he would see with his own eyes the ancient Oracles of GOD in their native beauty.
Page 55 - And surely they that shall boast, as we do, to be a free nation, and not have in themselves the power to remove or to abolish any governor, supreme or subordinate, with...
Page 47 - ... the little one became a thousand, and the small one a strong nation, there is no province for anticipation in public affairs, and " the philosophy of history

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