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California, Union, and Freedom - Page 9
by William Henry Seward - 1850 - 14 pages
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The Nebraska Question: Comprising Speeches in the United States Senate

Compromise of 1850 - 1854 - 144 pages
...superiority there is in our condition and hopes over those of any other " kingdom" or " estate" is duo to the fortunate circumstance that our ancestors did...constitutions, and customs, as were wise." We in our tura have succeeded to the same responsibilities, and we cannot approach the duty before us wisely...
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The Nebraska Question

1854 - 136 pages
...hut This is a State, and we are deliherating for it, just as our fathers deliherated in estahlishing the institutions we enjoy. Whatever superiority there...ancestors did not leave things to "take their chance," hut that they "added amplitude and greatness" to our commonwealth "hy introducing such ordinances,...
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The Nebraska Question: Comprising Speeches in the United States Senate by Mr ...

Edward Everett, Charles Sumner - Amazon River - 1854 - 234 pages
...superiority there is in our condition and hopes over those of any other " kingdom" or " estate" i» due to the fortunate circumstance that our ancestors...that they " added amplitude and greatness" to our commonwe<h "by introducing such ordinances, constitutions, and customs, as were wise." We in our...
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The Life of William H. Seward with Selections from His Works

George E. Baker - 1855 - 436 pages
...and customs, as are wise, they may sow greatness to their posterity and successors. But these things are commonly not observed, but left to take their...have succeeded to the same responsibilities, and we can not approach the duty before us wisely or justly, except we raise ourselves to the great consideration...
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A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present ...

Edmund Clarence Stedman - American literature - 1888 - 600 pages
...posterity and successors. But these things are commonly not observed, but left to take their chance." ority there is in our condition and hopes over those of...added amplitude and greatness " to our commonwealth " bv introducing such ordinances, constitutions, and customs as were wise." We in our turn have succeeded...
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A Library of American Literature...

Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 pages
...posterity and successors. But these things are commonly not observed, but left to take their chance." ority there is in our condition and hopes over those of...circumstance that our ancestors did not leave things to tl take their chance," but that they " added amplitude and greatness " to our commonwealth '' by introducing...
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Masterpieces of American Eloquence: Christian Herald Selection

Orators - 1900 - 526 pages
...stewards, and must so discharge our trust as to secure, in the highest attainable degree, their happiness. This is a State, and we are deliberating for it, just...our ancestors did not leave things to '' take their chances," but that they " added amplitude and greatness " to our Commonwealth " by introducing such...
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The History of North America: The growth of the nation, 1837 to 1860, by E.W ...

Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe - Indians of North America - 1905 - 596 pages
...and hopes, over those of any other ' kingdom ' or ' estate,' is due to the fortunate circumstances that our ancestors did not leave things to 'take their...and we cannot approach the duty before us, wisely and justly, except we raise ourselves to the great consideration of how we can most certainly ' sow...
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The Growth of the Nation, 1837-1860, from the Beginning of Van Buren's ...

Enoch Walter Sikes, William Morse Keener - United States - 1905 - 560 pages
...and hopes, over those of any other ' kingdom ' or ' estate,' is due to the fortunate circumstances that our ancestors did not leave things to 'take their...and we cannot approach the duty before us, wisely and justly, except we raise ourselves to the great consideration of how we can most certainly ' sow...
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The Negro in Our History

Carter Godwin Woodson - African Americans - 1922 - 420 pages
...and customs, as are wise, they may sow greatness to their posterity and successors. But these things are commonly not observed, but left to take their...responsibilities, and we cannot approach the duty before ua wisely or justly, except we raise ourselves to the great consideration of how we can most certainly...
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