Writings of Hugh Swinton Legaré, Late Attorney General and Acting Secretary of State of the United States: Consisting of a Diary of Brussels, and Journal of the Rhine : Extracts from His Private and Diplomatic Correspondence : Orations and Speeches : and Contributions to the New-York and Southern Reviews : Prefaced by a Memoir of His Life, Embellished with a Portrait, Band 2Burges & James, 1845 |
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... mention . But what might there very properly be rejected as supererogation , or even quizzed as downright twaddling , ( to borrow a phrase from an English magazine ) may be imperiously called for by the state of public opinion on this ...
... mention . But what might there very properly be rejected as supererogation , or even quizzed as downright twaddling , ( to borrow a phrase from an English magazine ) may be imperiously called for by the state of public opinion on this ...
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... mentioned æra to take a survey of what the human race had done to better its condition , or to elevate its character , Mr. Grimké affirms that " the moral improvement of man , and the cultivation of those sciences , which relate to his ...
... mentioned æra to take a survey of what the human race had done to better its condition , or to elevate its character , Mr. Grimké affirms that " the moral improvement of man , and the cultivation of those sciences , which relate to his ...
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... mention certain materials of a still more substantial kind ) made to the stock of the geographer , the statist , the natural historian , the merchant , & c . , what is become of the poetry ? So far , her stores , at least , seem to have ...
... mention certain materials of a still more substantial kind ) made to the stock of the geographer , the statist , the natural historian , the merchant , & c . , what is become of the poetry ? So far , her stores , at least , seem to have ...
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... mention of these great names , however , reminds us of what appears to be very much against this new theory , viz . that not only in England , but in all the other nations of Europe , except Germany , and in truth throughout the whole ...
... mention of these great names , however , reminds us of what appears to be very much against this new theory , viz . that not only in England , but in all the other nations of Europe , except Germany , and in truth throughout the whole ...
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... mention as another important consideration , that the knowledge of these languages brings us acquainted , familiarly , minutely and impressively , with a state of society altogether un- like any thing that we see in modern times . When ...
... mention as another important consideration , that the knowledge of these languages brings us acquainted , familiarly , minutely and impressively , with a state of society altogether un- like any thing that we see in modern times . When ...
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