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... mind drew him to the companionship of the noblest authors . Addison , Swift , and Shakespeare were fa- vorites , whose works he delighted to read aloud to his family around the evening fire of logs . Honors and moderate wealth came to ...
... mind drew him to the companionship of the noblest authors . Addison , Swift , and Shakespeare were fa- vorites , whose works he delighted to read aloud to his family around the evening fire of logs . Honors and moderate wealth came to ...
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... mind , and to recur to the annals of our ancestors for what is most perfect in government , in religion , and in learning , is worthy of those bigots in religion and government by whom it has been recommended , and whose purpose it ...
... mind , and to recur to the annals of our ancestors for what is most perfect in government , in religion , and in learning , is worthy of those bigots in religion and government by whom it has been recommended , and whose purpose it ...
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... mind since the publication in 1762 of James Otis's Vin- dication of the Conduct of the House of Representa- tives of the Province of Massachusetts Bay . In no other State was the need of reform more crying than in Virginia . New England ...
... mind since the publication in 1762 of James Otis's Vin- dication of the Conduct of the House of Representa- tives of the Province of Massachusetts Bay . In no other State was the need of reform more crying than in Virginia . New England ...
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... minds ; that Almighty God hath created the mind free , and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain , by making it altogether insus- ceptible of restraint ; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or ...
... minds ; that Almighty God hath created the mind free , and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain , by making it altogether insus- ceptible of restraint ; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or ...
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... mind would not bear the proposition , nor will it bear it even to this day ( 1821 ) . Yet the day is not distant when it must bear and adopt it , or worse will follow . Nothing is more cer- tainly written in the book of fate than that ...
... mind would not bear the proposition , nor will it bear it even to this day ( 1821 ) . Yet the day is not distant when it must bear and adopt it , or worse will follow . Nothing is more cer- tainly written in the book of fate than that ...
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