The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 193A. Constable, 1901 |
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... give an intelligible account of the coup d'état of 1851. Yet he would hardly be ashamed to confess that he had never heard of the event which Mr. Rhodes has made the starting - point of his history - the compromise of 1850 . Yet there ...
... give an intelligible account of the coup d'état of 1851. Yet he would hardly be ashamed to confess that he had never heard of the event which Mr. Rhodes has made the starting - point of his history - the compromise of 1850 . Yet there ...
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... give effect to its provisions . In other ways , too , the compromise seemed likely to bear fruit . Pierce , who became President in 1853 , though a Northerner by birth , was a Democrat in politics ; he owed his election to the fact that ...
... give effect to its provisions . In other ways , too , the compromise seemed likely to bear fruit . Pierce , who became President in 1853 , though a Northerner by birth , was a Democrat in politics ; he owed his election to the fact that ...
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... give effect to these conclusions passed the Senate and , with the aid of the If there was any doubt that the proposition of Douglas would have this effect , it was speedily removed by later proceedings . One of the Senators for Kentucky ...
... give effect to these conclusions passed the Senate and , with the aid of the If there was any doubt that the proposition of Douglas would have this effect , it was speedily removed by later proceedings . One of the Senators for Kentucky ...
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... give ' property of that kind less protection than any other pro- ' perty . ' The first of these conclusions was soon condensed into the aphorism , ' Negroes had no rights which the white ' man was bound to respect . ' The second of them ...
... give ' property of that kind less protection than any other pro- ' perty . ' The first of these conclusions was soon condensed into the aphorism , ' Negroes had no rights which the white ' man was bound to respect . ' The second of them ...
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... de Lobeira and his translator and continuator Montalvo , had disappeared from the scene to give place to new dramatis person who , whether or not to the manner born , wore the 42 Landscape : Symbolic , Imaginative , and Actual . Jan.
... de Lobeira and his translator and continuator Montalvo , had disappeared from the scene to give place to new dramatis person who , whether or not to the manner born , wore the 42 Landscape : Symbolic , Imaginative , and Actual . Jan.
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