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... erected the " ostentatious fiction " that the gods alone were worthy to have reared the infancy of a people so distinguished in arts and so renowned in arms . To review the characters and actions of our ancestors , to look back upon the ...
... erected the " ostentatious fiction " that the gods alone were worthy to have reared the infancy of a people so distinguished in arts and so renowned in arms . To review the characters and actions of our ancestors , to look back upon the ...
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... erected for the security of the rights of man , and will not the boundaries of our own wisdom be enlarged the better to maintain and transmit these inestimable rights to posterity ? Gentlemen of the Georgia Historical Society : It is ...
... erected for the security of the rights of man , and will not the boundaries of our own wisdom be enlarged the better to maintain and transmit these inestimable rights to posterity ? Gentlemen of the Georgia Historical Society : It is ...
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... erecting and maintaining an institution for the support and education of orphans . This plan had previously been ... erected a monument more durable than the marble , which , when accident and time have now left scarcely a vestige to ...
... erecting and maintaining an institution for the support and education of orphans . This plan had previously been ... erected a monument more durable than the marble , which , when accident and time have now left scarcely a vestige to ...
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... erected chapels for that purpose in different parts of the kingdom -and she was estimated to have appropriated during her christian life , for the propagation of the gospel and to institutions for the relief of the poor , near half a ...
... erected chapels for that purpose in different parts of the kingdom -and she was estimated to have appropriated during her christian life , for the propagation of the gospel and to institutions for the relief of the poor , near half a ...
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... erected a bat- tery and mounted twenty eighteen pounders . The General perceived and appreciated his situation ; he determined , in the face of this overwhelming force , to main- tain his position and act defensively . The haughty Don ...
... erected a bat- tery and mounted twenty eighteen pounders . The General perceived and appreciated his situation ; he determined , in the face of this overwhelming force , to main- tain his position and act defensively . The haughty Don ...
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