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Agricultural Education, an Individual, State and National Necessity ... - Page 3
by Robert F. Johnstone - 1854
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Town's Third Reader: Containing a Selection of Lessons, Exclusively from ...

Salem Town - Readers - 1848 - 300 pages
...But their remains to us a great duty of defence and preservation; and there is opened to us, also, a noble pursuit, to which the spirit of the times...strongly invites us. Our proper business is improvement. Let our age be the age of improvement. In a day of peace, let us advance the arts of peace and the...
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Speeches and Forensic Arguments, Volume 1

Daniel Webster - 1848 - 514 pages
...But there remains to us a great duty of defence and preservation; and there is opened to us, also, a noble pursuit, to which the spirit of the times strongly invites us. Our proper bustness is improvement. Let our age be the age of improvement. In a day of peace, let us advance the...
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Biographical memoir [by Edward Everett] and speeches on various occasions

Daniel Webster - United States - 1851 - 634 pages
...7* there remains to us a great duty of defence and preservation ; and there is opened to us, also, a noble pursuit, to which the spirit of the times strongly invites us. Our proper business ia improvement. Let our age be the age of improvement. In aday of peace, let us advance the arts of...
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The Great Orations and Senatorial Speech of Daniel Webster: Comprising ...

Daniel Webster - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1853 - 130 pages
...But there remains to us a great duty of defence and preservation ; and there is opened to us, also, a noble pursuit, to which the spirit of the times...strongly invites us. Our proper business is improvement. Let our age be the age of improvement. In a day of peace, let us advance the arts of peace and'the...
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The Works of Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster - 1853
...But 7* there remains to us a great duty of defence and preservation; and there is opened to us, also, a noble pursuit, to which the spirit of the times...strongly invites us. Our proper business is improvement. Let our age be the age of improvement. In a day of peace, let us advance the arts of peace and the...
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The Works, Volume 1

Daniel Webster - 1854 - 640 pages
...7' there remains to us a great duty of defence and preservation ; and there is opened to us, also, a noble pursuit, to which the spirit of the times...strongly invites us. Our proper business is improvement. Let our age be the age of improvement. In a day of peace, let us advance the arts of peace and the...
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Historical Sketch of Col. Benjamin Bellows: Founder of Walpole : an Address ...

Henry Whitney Bellows - Walpole (N.H.) - 1855 - 156 pages
...But there remains to us a great duty of defense and preservation, and there is opened to us, also, a noble pursuit, to which the spirit of the times...strongly invites us. Our proper business is improvement. Let our age be an age of improvement. In a day of peace, let us advance the arts of peace and the works...
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The American Speaker: Being a Collection of Pieces in Prose, Poetry, and ...

Charles Northend - Orators - 1856 - 276 pages
...them. But there remains to us a great duty of defence and preservation ; and there is open to us, also, a noble pursuit, to which the spirit of the times...strongly invites us. Our proper business is improvement. Let our age b the age of improvement. In a day of peace, let us advance the arts of peace and the works...
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American Eloquence: a Collection of Speeches and Addresses: By the ..., Volume 2

American Orators - 1857 - 656 pages
...But there remains to us a great duty of defence and preservation ; and there is opened to us, also, a noble pursuit, to which the spirit of the times...strongly invites us. Our proper business is improvement. Let our age be the age of improvement. In a day of peace, let us advance the arts of peace and the...
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American Eloquence: a Collection of Speeches and Addresses: By the ..., Volume 2

History - 1857 - 650 pages
...Bnt there remains to us a great duty of defence and preservation ; and there is opened to ns, also, a noble pursuit, to which the spirit of the times...strongly invites us. Our proper business is improvement. Let our age be the age of improvement. In a day of peace, let us advance the arts of peace and the...
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