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With a high reputation for diplomatic skill , every important negotiation with a view
to the adjustment of our claims on the justice of foreign countries , resulted in a
disastrous , and not always an honorable failure . The nearest approach to an ...
With a high reputation for diplomatic skill , every important negotiation with a view
to the adjustment of our claims on the justice of foreign countries , resulted in a
disastrous , and not always an honorable failure . The nearest approach to an ...
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Against the most violent efforts of an opposition , powerful in numbers and talents
, and sustained by the whole patronage of the government - against a torrent of
enmity , overwhelming all the laws of honorable warfare , and all the distinctions
...
Against the most violent efforts of an opposition , powerful in numbers and talents
, and sustained by the whole patronage of the government - against a torrent of
enmity , overwhelming all the laws of honorable warfare , and all the distinctions
...
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On this ground , if victory were not always certain , defeat would be more
honorable than success on either of the others . We have already adverted to the
circumstances under which Gen. Jackson was elected President — the
embarrassed ...
On this ground , if victory were not always certain , defeat would be more
honorable than success on either of the others . We have already adverted to the
circumstances under which Gen. Jackson was elected President — the
embarrassed ...
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His early efforts were opposed by difficulties as formidable as his success was
honorable to his talents , and to the public opinion by which he was sustained .
The prosperity of his whole life , indeed , is literally the fruit of his own unassisted
...
His early efforts were opposed by difficulties as formidable as his success was
honorable to his talents , and to the public opinion by which he was sustained .
The prosperity of his whole life , indeed , is literally the fruit of his own unassisted
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It is true a powerful aristocracy has pursued him with an implacable animosity
through all the gradations of the public confidence , by force of which he has
risen : but this honorable distinction he enjoys in common with the illustrious
individual ...
It is true a powerful aristocracy has pursued him with an implacable animosity
through all the gradations of the public confidence , by force of which he has
risen : but this honorable distinction he enjoys in common with the illustrious
individual ...
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