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... cause , the famous Compact was made which is now known as one of the great charters of human liberty . How often it is that through dissatisfaction is advance- ment made , and how , too , the complaints of a few , whether just or unjust ...
... cause , the famous Compact was made which is now known as one of the great charters of human liberty . How often it is that through dissatisfaction is advance- ment made , and how , too , the complaints of a few , whether just or unjust ...
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... cause . He was a soldier , the soldier of a worthy country . He was obeying the instructions of his General , George Washington , of the Continental Army . Nathan Hale was born in Connecticut in 1755- Of his youth little is known except ...
... cause . He was a soldier , the soldier of a worthy country . He was obeying the instructions of his General , George Washington , of the Continental Army . Nathan Hale was born in Connecticut in 1755- Of his youth little is known except ...
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... caused the unnecessary agonies of the captured colonists who came to his keeping and the horrors of the Sugar House prison , himself was later - unwept and dishonored - hung for his crimes . As Nathan Hale stood that September morning ...
... caused the unnecessary agonies of the captured colonists who came to his keeping and the horrors of the Sugar House prison , himself was later - unwept and dishonored - hung for his crimes . As Nathan Hale stood that September morning ...
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... cause of this and his high intellectual powers his cowardice seems to have been overlooked . He has been called a demagogue ; it is likely he was . He has been charged with treachery ; perhaps the charge was true . Being overwhelmed by ...
... cause of this and his high intellectual powers his cowardice seems to have been overlooked . He has been called a demagogue ; it is likely he was . He has been charged with treachery ; perhaps the charge was true . Being overwhelmed by ...
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... caused the earth to produce corn for bread . All this he had done for his red children , because he loved them . If we had some disputes about our hunting ground , they were generally settled with- out the shedding of much blood . But ...
... caused the earth to produce corn for bread . All this he had done for his red children , because he loved them . If we had some disputes about our hunting ground , they were generally settled with- out the shedding of much blood . But ...
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