The American Enlightenment: The Shaping of the American Experiment and a Free SocietyAdrienne Koch |
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... consider the numerous distresses , the gross indignities , the barbarous ignorance , the haughty usurpations , that we have reason to fear are meditating for ourselves , our children , our neighbors , in short , for all our countrymen ...
... consider the numerous distresses , the gross indignities , the barbarous ignorance , the haughty usurpations , that we have reason to fear are meditating for ourselves , our children , our neighbors , in short , for all our countrymen ...
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... consider the mass which op- posed the original coalescence ; when we consider that it lay chiefly in the Southern quarter ; that the Legislature have availed themselves of no oc- casion of allaying it , but on the contrary , whenever ...
... consider the mass which op- posed the original coalescence ; when we consider that it lay chiefly in the Southern quarter ; that the Legislature have availed themselves of no oc- casion of allaying it , but on the contrary , whenever ...
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... consider the treaties heretofore made with France as in present force and operation between them and the actual governing powers of the French nation ? or may they elect to consider their operation as sus- pended , reserving also a ...
... consider the treaties heretofore made with France as in present force and operation between them and the actual governing powers of the French nation ? or may they elect to consider their operation as sus- pended , reserving also a ...
Contents
IntroductionAdrienne Koch | 19 |
Reading and Writing | 56 |
LETTERS | 69 |
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