Oration Pronounced by the Honorable Robert C. Winthrop, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States, on the Fourth of July, 1848: On the Occasion of Laying the Corner-stone of the National Monument to the Memory of WashingtonJ. & G.S. Gideon, printers, 1848 - 67 páginas |
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... less grateful to an American eye , as being the masterly production of a native artist * -that the govern- ment of the country has not been unmindful of what it owes to WASHINGTON . One tribute to his memory is left to be rendered . One ...
... less grateful to an American eye , as being the masterly production of a native artist * -that the govern- ment of the country has not been unmindful of what it owes to WASHINGTON . One tribute to his memory is left to be rendered . One ...
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... less , there are dangers still , which might almost seem to have justified such a wish . But it is plain that the cur- rents of political influence thus far have run deepest and strongest in the opposite direction . The influence of the ...
... less , there are dangers still , which might almost seem to have justified such a wish . But it is plain that the cur- rents of political influence thus far have run deepest and strongest in the opposite direction . The influence of the ...
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... less truly glorious , if his own authority should date its decline to his noble refusal to lend his apostolical sanction to a war of conquest . For Italy , however , and for France , and for the whole European world alike , a great work ...
... less truly glorious , if his own authority should date its decline to his noble refusal to lend his apostolical sanction to a war of conquest . For Italy , however , and for France , and for the whole European world alike , a great work ...
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... less miraculous escape , a few years later , on the banks of the Monongahela , when , foremost in that fear- ful fight , he was the only mounted officer of the British troops who was not either killed or desperately wounded ? Let me not ...
... less miraculous escape , a few years later , on the banks of the Monongahela , when , foremost in that fear- ful fight , he was the only mounted officer of the British troops who was not either killed or desperately wounded ? Let me not ...
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... less natural or less striking was the testimony of the Indian chief , who told Washington , fifteen years afterwards , " That at the battle of the Monongahela , he had singled him out as a conspicuous object , had fired his rifle at him ...
... less natural or less striking was the testimony of the Indian chief , who told Washington , fifteen years afterwards , " That at the battle of the Monongahela , he had singled him out as a conspicuous object , had fired his rifle at him ...
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