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For proof that these addresses have been full of pertinent facts , sound sense , and able arguments , we must necessarily point to results , and demand to be tried by our fruits . Within these last twenty years it has been very rare ...
For proof that these addresses have been full of pertinent facts , sound sense , and able arguments , we must necessarily point to results , and demand to be tried by our fruits . Within these last twenty years it has been very rare ...
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Its one influence , FASHION , is often able to mock at Religion , Trade , Literature , and Politics combined . One half the reason why Washington has been and is in peril - why every move is revealed and checkmated -is that your ...
Its one influence , FASHION , is often able to mock at Religion , Trade , Literature , and Politics combined . One half the reason why Washington has been and is in peril - why every move is revealed and checkmated -is that your ...
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They were able in war and skillful in civil affairs , but not , like him , re- markable for that rare mingling of high qualities which alone makes true greatness , and insures a man leadership among those otherwise almost his equals .
They were able in war and skillful in civil affairs , but not , like him , re- markable for that rare mingling of high qualities which alone makes true greatness , and insures a man leadership among those otherwise almost his equals .
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Contents
In Defense of Lovejoy | 1 |
The Boston Mob | 10 |
The Right of Petition | 23 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Wendell Phillips on Civil Rights and Freedom |
| Author | Wendell Phillips |
| Editor | Louis Filler |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | University Press of America, 1982 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 12 Sep 2006 |
| ISBN | 0819127930, 9780819127938 |
| Length | 221 pages |
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