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Page 184
... Look at the course of the British Catholics , submitting to exclusion , for more than a century , from professions and offices , from the House of Commons and the House of Lords , rather than qualify themselves by an oath abjuring the ...
... Look at the course of the British Catholics , submitting to exclusion , for more than a century , from professions and offices , from the House of Commons and the House of Lords , rather than qualify themselves by an oath abjuring the ...
Page 294
... look ? The man who stands out for the slave amid the hisses of multitudes , the exciter of mobs , the agitator , the radical reformer , the fanatical philanthropist . What sort of man is this that is impelled by such a spirit ? He is ...
... look ? The man who stands out for the slave amid the hisses of multitudes , the exciter of mobs , the agitator , the radical reformer , the fanatical philanthropist . What sort of man is this that is impelled by such a spirit ? He is ...
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... Look at it . What was the South's strength ? She had eight million whites ; she had the sympathy of foreign powers ; she had the labor of four million slaves . What had the North ? " Divided almost equally - into Republicans and ...
... Look at it . What was the South's strength ? She had eight million whites ; she had the sympathy of foreign powers ; she had the labor of four million slaves . What had the North ? " Divided almost equally - into Republicans and ...
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The Revolutionary Tradition | 13 |
A New England Boyhood | 18 |
Harvard Days | 26 |
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