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Page 57
... true , that while the public mind was waked up on the great subject of religion in the west , Arianism and Socinian- ism appeared in some parts of the country : there were • some cases , among both ministers and people , THE GREAT ...
... true , that while the public mind was waked up on the great subject of religion in the west , Arianism and Socinian- ism appeared in some parts of the country : there were • some cases , among both ministers and people , THE GREAT ...
Page 58
... true , that three Shaker missionaries , from Lebanon , in New York , I believe , came to the west , and succeeded in forming two small societies in Kentucky , and one in Ohio . This is about the extent to which Shakerism obtained any ...
... true , that three Shaker missionaries , from Lebanon , in New York , I believe , came to the west , and succeeded in forming two small societies in Kentucky , and one in Ohio . This is about the extent to which Shakerism obtained any ...
Page 70
... true greatness were already con- spicuous in the character of the youthful Jackson . Those extraordinary attributes of mind already stood forth , which in after life enabled him to sway and direct public opinion in one of the greatest ...
... true greatness were already con- spicuous in the character of the youthful Jackson . Those extraordinary attributes of mind already stood forth , which in after life enabled him to sway and direct public opinion in one of the greatest ...
Page 81
... True virtue cannot exist where pomp and parade are the governing passions ; it can only dwell with the people — the great laboring and producing classes , that form the bone and sinew of our confederacy . " For these reasons I cannot ...
... True virtue cannot exist where pomp and parade are the governing passions ; it can only dwell with the people — the great laboring and producing classes , that form the bone and sinew of our confederacy . " For these reasons I cannot ...
Page 103
... true cause of all this distress , you are boggling and boisterous about the ' evils of rain . ' “ Wonderful infatuation ! Carmelite , interrupt me no more . ' So saying , he turned and addressed his cry to the God of Abraham , Isaac ...
... true cause of all this distress , you are boggling and boisterous about the ' evils of rain . ' “ Wonderful infatuation ! Carmelite , interrupt me no more . ' So saying , he turned and addressed his cry to the God of Abraham , Isaac ...
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