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Page 36
... true cause , correctly to portray characters taken from real life , and justly assign to each his actual agency . Let us , humble as we are , and humble as we ought to be , comparing ourselves with the eastern hemisphere , let us ...
... true cause , correctly to portray characters taken from real life , and justly assign to each his actual agency . Let us , humble as we are , and humble as we ought to be , comparing ourselves with the eastern hemisphere , let us ...
Page 40
... true oracle obtain . Franklin , dread thunder - bolts , with daring hand , Seized , and averted their destructive stroke From the protected dwellings of mankind . Fulton by flame compell'd the angry sea , To vapour rarified , his bark ...
... true oracle obtain . Franklin , dread thunder - bolts , with daring hand , Seized , and averted their destructive stroke From the protected dwellings of mankind . Fulton by flame compell'd the angry sea , To vapour rarified , his bark ...
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... true glory . Johnson is related to have exclaimed , in one of those fine bursts of natural feeling which occasionally overpow- ered the narrowness of his political creed , " I love the University of Salamanca for their decision on the ...
... true glory . Johnson is related to have exclaimed , in one of those fine bursts of natural feeling which occasionally overpow- ered the narrowness of his political creed , " I love the University of Salamanca for their decision on the ...
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... true or erroneous , a Cotton Mather - Magnalia , Book VII . in the chapter , entitled Lit- tle Foxes , or the spirit of Rigid Separation in one remarkable zealot , & c . were alike offensive to his puritan brethren , and contro- 8 57.
... true or erroneous , a Cotton Mather - Magnalia , Book VII . in the chapter , entitled Lit- tle Foxes , or the spirit of Rigid Separation in one remarkable zealot , & c . were alike offensive to his puritan brethren , and contro- 8 57.
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... true , that some of Penn's plans of peaceful legis- lation , have been found inapplicable to the actual state and condition of mankind . But his very failures were glorious , for they arose chiefly from a too sanguine ex- pectation of ...
... true , that some of Penn's plans of peaceful legis- lation , have been found inapplicable to the actual state and condition of mankind . But his very failures were glorious , for they arose chiefly from a too sanguine ex- pectation of ...
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