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A class-book of English prose, with biogr. notices, explanatory notes and ... - Page 324
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A Literary Manual of Foreign Quotations, Ancient and Modern: With ...

1890 - 270 pages
...auspicate all our public proceedings on America with the old warning of the Church, Sursum corda ! We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of...trust to which the order of Providence has called us. BURKE : Speech on " Conciliation with America." Whatever career you may embrace, adopt a lofty aim,...
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Speeches on the American War: And Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol

Edmund Burke - 1891 - 264 pages
...auspicate 25 all our public proceedings on America with the old warning of the church, Sursum corda! 1 We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of...this high calling, our ancestors have turned a savage wil30 derness into a glorious empire ; and have made the most extensive, and the only honourable conquests,...
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Columbian Selections: American Patriotism. For Home and School

1892 - 436 pages
...auspicate all our public proceedings on America with the old warning of the church, Sursum cordal* We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of...empire, and have made the most extensive and the only honorable conquests, not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness, of...
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Cathcart's Literary Reader: A Manual of English Literature : Being Typical ...

George Rhett Cathcart - 1892 - 572 pages
...corrta ! 8 We ought to elevate our minds to the great1 fellowship, community of interest and blood ness of that trust to which the order of Providence has...empire ; and have made the most extensive, and the only honorable conquests, not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness of the...
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Columbian Selections: American Patriotism. For Home and School

1892 - 440 pages
...a savage wilderness into a glorious empire, and have made the most extensive and the only honorable conquests, not by destroying, but by promoting the...wealth, the number, the happiness, of the human race. EDMUND BURKE. "WAR IB ACTUALLY BEGUN." (Mr. Henry, in the Convention of Delegates of Virginia, March...
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English Lessons for English People

Edwin Abbott Abbott, Sir John Robert Seeley - 1893 - 344 pages
...auspicate all our public proceedings in America with the old warning of the Church, — . Sursum corda ! We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of...empire ; and have made the most extensive and the only honorable conquests, not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness of the...
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Orations and Arguments by English and American Statesmen

Cornelius Beach Bradley - 1894 - 392 pages
...proceedings on America with the old warning of the church, Sursum corda! We ought to elevate our 5 minds to the greatness of that trust to which the...empire, and have made the most extensive and the only honorable conquests — not 10 by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness,...
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Conciliation with the Colonies

Edmund Burke - 1894 - 120 pages
...proceedings on America with the old warning of the church, Sursum corda! We ought to elevate our 5 minds to the greatness of that trust to which the...empire, and have made the most extensive and the only honorable conquests — not 10 by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness,...
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Conciliation with the American Colonies

Edmund Burke - 1895 - 104 pages
...auspicate 1 all our public proceedings on America with the old warning of the church, Sursum corda ! 2 We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of...empire ; and have made the most extensive and the only honorable conquests, not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness of the...
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College Entrance Requirements in English, 1901-1905 (for Study and Practice).

1895 - 508 pages
...auspicate1 all our public proceedings on America with the old warning of the church, Sursum corda ! 2 We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of...empire ; and have made the most extensive and the only honorable conquests, not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness of the...
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