Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions, Volume 4Little, Brown, 1868 |
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... called a country , - his first of three visits to Boston , -then a town of perhaps eighteen thousand inhabitants , took place just a century ago last February , when he came among us , already the youthful hero of the Seven Years ' War ...
... called a country , - his first of three visits to Boston , -then a town of perhaps eighteen thousand inhabitants , took place just a century ago last February , when he came among us , already the youthful hero of the Seven Years ' War ...
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... called , and among others by the first living parliament- ary orator of England ( Lord Brougham ) , " the greatest man of our own or of any age " ; and in this estimate of his character , long since pronounced by his grateful countrymen ...
... called , and among others by the first living parliament- ary orator of England ( Lord Brougham ) , " the greatest man of our own or of any age " ; and in this estimate of his character , long since pronounced by his grateful countrymen ...
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... called , with propriety , the secu- lum mirabile , the age of wonders , humanly speaking , in the history of mankind . Let us , my friends , to justify this re- mark , and to show the grandeur of that theatre on which Washington played ...
... called , with propriety , the secu- lum mirabile , the age of wonders , humanly speaking , in the history of mankind . Let us , my friends , to justify this re- mark , and to show the grandeur of that theatre on which Washington played ...
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... called it , to be laid by the side of his kindred , ordered that it should be buried with his favorite dogs at Potsdam ! Or shall we compare Washington with the third greatness of his age , the illustrious captain of the last generation ...
... called it , to be laid by the side of his kindred , ordered that it should be buried with his favorite dogs at Potsdam ! Or shall we compare Washington with the third greatness of his age , the illustrious captain of the last generation ...
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... called a brilliant public character , would have destroyed the beauty and broken down the strength of Washington's . The ancient philosophers placed the true conception of perfect manhood in the posses- sion of those powers and ...
... called a brilliant public character , would have destroyed the beauty and broken down the strength of Washington's . The ancient philosophers placed the true conception of perfect manhood in the posses- sion of those powers and ...
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