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American Literature

Robert Shafer - American literature - 1926 - 1410 pages
...and see the honor, the happiness, and the hopes of this beloved country committed to the issue and kn 5 I shall find resources of wisdom, of virtue, and of zeal, on which to rely under all difficulties....
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The Best Letters of Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson - History - 1926 - 514 pages
...happiness, and the hopes of this beloved country committed to the issue and the FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS 113 auspices of this day, I shrink from the contemplation,...other high authorities provided by our constitution, I shall find resources of wisdom, of virtue, and of zeal, on which to rely under all difficulties....
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American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World

David E. Stannard - Biography & Autobiography - 1992 - 420 pages
...and see the honor, the happiness, and the hopes of this beloved country committed to the issue, and the auspices of this day, I shrink from the contemplation, and humble myself before the magnitude of the undertaking.130 It was in pursuit of these and other grand visions that Jefferson later would write...
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Early American Writing

Various - History - 1994 - 676 pages
...and see the honor, the happiness, and the hopes of this beloved country committed to the issue and the auspices of this day, I shrink from the contemplation,...other high authorities provided by our constitution, I shall find resources of wisdom, of virtue, and of zeal, on which to rely under all difficulties....
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Jefferson and Madison: Three Conversations from the Founding

Lance Banning - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 264 pages
...and see the honor, the happiness, and the hopes of this beloved country committed to the issue and the auspices of this day, I shrink from the contemplation,...other high authorities provided by our Constitution I shall find resources of wisdom, of virtue, and of zeal on which to rely under all difficulties. To...
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Strong Presidents: A Theory of Leadership

Philip Abbott - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 302 pages
...the mortal eye." When the new president took to "contemplate these transcendent objects," he would "shrink from the contemplation, and humble myself before the magnitude of the undertaking."'7 In moments such as these, Jefferson would discard republican pessimism about the mortality...
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God's New Israel: Religious Interpretations of American Destiny

Conrad Cherry - History - 1998 - 428 pages
...and see the honor, the happiness, and the hopes of this beloved country committed to the issue, and the auspices of this day, I shrink from the contemplation,...other high authorities provided by our Constitution I shall find resources of wisdom, of virtue, and of zeal on which to rely under all difficulties. To...
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Jefferson: Political Writings

Thomas Jefferson - History - 1999 - 676 pages
...and see the honor, the happiness, and the hopes of this beloved country committed to the issue and the auspices of this day, I shrink from the contemplation,...other high authorities provided by our constitution, I shall find resources of wisdom, of virtue, and of zeal, on which to rely under all difficulties....
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Speeches that Changed the World

Owen Collins - History - 1999 - 464 pages
...and see the honor, the happiness, and the hopes of this beloved country committed to the issue, and the auspices of this day, I shrink from the contemplation,...other high authorities provided by our Constitution I shall find resources of wisdom, of virtue, and of zeal on which to rely under all difficulties. To...
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The World's Great Speeches

Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - History - 1999 - 978 pages
...to the issue and the auspices of this day, I sbrink from the contemplation, and humble myself hefore the magnitude of the undertaking. Utterly, indeed,...should I despair, did not the presence of many, whom I see here, remind me, that, in the other high authorities provided by our constitution, I shall find...
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