Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams, Sixth President of the United States: With the Eulogy Delivered Before the Legislature of New YorkDerby, Miller, 1849 - 404 pagini This book is a biography of John Quincy Adams, United States Senator, Congressman from Massachusetts, and the sixth President of the United States from 1825 to 1829. |
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... interests- his advocacy of human freedom , and the rights of man -brought all to honor and love him . Admiring legis- lators hung with rapture on the lips of " the Old Man Eloquent , " and millions eagerly perused the senti- ments he ...
... interests- his advocacy of human freedom , and the rights of man -brought all to honor and love him . Admiring legis- lators hung with rapture on the lips of " the Old Man Eloquent , " and millions eagerly perused the senti- ments he ...
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... interests of any political clique . In all his measures his great object was to advance the welfare of the nation ... interest among the people of the United States . But their sympathies ran in different channels , and very naturally ...
... interests of any political clique . In all his measures his great object was to advance the welfare of the nation ... interest among the people of the United States . But their sympathies ran in different channels , and very naturally ...
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... interests of the country , and peril the very existence of the government . These views he embodied in a series of articles , which he published in the Boston Centinel , in 1793 , under the signature of " Marcellus . " He insisted it ...
... interests of the country , and peril the very existence of the government . These views he embodied in a series of articles , which he published in the Boston Centinel , in 1793 , under the signature of " Marcellus . " He insisted it ...
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... interests . While in the practice of law in Boston , Mr. Adams was not well satisfied with his condition or prospects . That he was laudably ambitious to arise to distinction ́n some honorable line is quite certain . But , singular as ...
... interests . While in the practice of law in Boston , Mr. Adams was not well satisfied with his condition or prospects . That he was laudably ambitious to arise to distinction ́n some honorable line is quite certain . But , singular as ...
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... interest of his family at the expense of public good . In this exigency , not daring to trust his own judgment , lest its decisions might be warped by parental solici- tude , he resorted to the wisdom and experience of Washington ...
... interest of his family at the expense of public good . In this exigency , not daring to trust his own judgment , lest its decisions might be warped by parental solici- tude , he resorted to the wisdom and experience of Washington ...
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