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... United States ! They had no mines of silver and gold . They had before them the boundless forests of an uncultivated continent , and beneath their feet a productive soil . But what can resist persevering industry ! The forests melted ...
... United States ! They had no mines of silver and gold . They had before them the boundless forests of an uncultivated continent , and beneath their feet a productive soil . But what can resist persevering industry ! The forests melted ...
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... United States ; and had imbibed a por- tion of the same heroic , invincible spirit which ani- mated the fathers of our happy country . Glowing with sympathy and delight , they carried the borrowed flame across the Atlantic . They ...
... United States ; and had imbibed a por- tion of the same heroic , invincible spirit which ani- mated the fathers of our happy country . Glowing with sympathy and delight , they carried the borrowed flame across the Atlantic . They ...
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... United States , nothing can be found , either in an- cient or modern times , equal or comparable to it . It demonstrates that , even in the 13th century , the Eng- lish nation far excelled Greece and Rome in political wisdom and virtue ...
... United States , nothing can be found , either in an- cient or modern times , equal or comparable to it . It demonstrates that , even in the 13th century , the Eng- lish nation far excelled Greece and Rome in political wisdom and virtue ...
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... united . No monarch ever mounted the English throne under greater advantages than Henry VIII . It is supposed that his father , at the time of his death , possessed more ready money than all the monarchs of Europe besides . His kingdom ...
... united . No monarch ever mounted the English throne under greater advantages than Henry VIII . It is supposed that his father , at the time of his death , possessed more ready money than all the monarchs of Europe besides . His kingdom ...
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... united the sovereignty of the British island . The only great exploit in which James excelled all other men , was his discovering the powder - plot , which would , otherwise , have escaped the sharpest eyes in England . The catholic ...
... united the sovereignty of the British island . The only great exploit in which James excelled all other men , was his discovering the powder - plot , which would , otherwise , have escaped the sharpest eyes in England . The catholic ...
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Page 71 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Page 95 - to whom a thousand years are but as one day, and one day as a thousand years...
Page 95 - Redeemer shall, in his own time and way, show who is the blessed and only potentate, the King of kings and the Lord of lords.