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... your birth , means and authority ; her birth , virtue , want and simplicity , doth make me thus bold , humbly to beseech your Majesty to take this knowledge of her , though it be from one so unworthy to be the reporter , as myself ...
... your birth , means and authority ; her birth , virtue , want and simplicity , doth make me thus bold , humbly to beseech your Majesty to take this knowledge of her , though it be from one so unworthy to be the reporter , as myself ...
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The begetting in them pleasure or pain in consequence of such actions as tend to their weal or ruin , is the great means of God's maintaining this his moral government over them , and all things or actions are to be considered as ...
The begetting in them pleasure or pain in consequence of such actions as tend to their weal or ruin , is the great means of God's maintaining this his moral government over them , and all things or actions are to be considered as ...
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A primary and essential means of the improvement of our literature is , that , as a people , we should feel its value ... We say that we must call for it ; by which we mean not merely that we must invite it by good wishes and kind words ...
A primary and essential means of the improvement of our literature is , that , as a people , we should feel its value ... We say that we must call for it ; by which we mean not merely that we must invite it by good wishes and kind words ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Colonial and Federalist American Writing The Odyssey surveys of American writing |
| Author | George F. Horner |
| Publisher | Odyssey Press, 1966 |
| Length | 946 pages |
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