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 páginas 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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... favor me with a blank book , I will transcribe the most remarkable passages I meet with in my reading , which will serve to fix them upon my mind . After making all just allowance for precocity of genius , we cannot but see that the ...
... favor me with a blank book , I will transcribe the most remarkable passages I meet with in my reading , which will serve to fix them upon my mind . After making all just allowance for precocity of genius , we cannot but see that the ...
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... favor . But they could not withhold the exhibition of reluctant respect . It was at such a time as this , and in such circum- stances , that John Quincy Adams surveyed , from a new position , the colossal structure of British power ...
... favor . But they could not withhold the exhibition of reluctant respect . It was at such a time as this , and in such circum- stances , that John Quincy Adams surveyed , from a new position , the colossal structure of British power ...
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... favor the views of Great Britain and other European powers , and were anxious that the govern- ment of the United States should adopt some active measures to assist in checking what they could not but view as rapid strides to political ...
... favor the views of Great Britain and other European powers , and were anxious that the govern- ment of the United States should adopt some active measures to assist in checking what they could not but view as rapid strides to political ...
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... favors of government . This is a weakness , and betrays too little knowledge of the world ; too little penetration ; too little discretion . I wish , however , that my boys had a little more of LIFE OF JOHN QUINCY ADAMS . 57.
... favors of government . This is a weakness , and betrays too little knowledge of the world ; too little penetration ; too little discretion . I wish , however , that my boys had a little more of LIFE OF JOHN QUINCY ADAMS . 57.
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... the people may choose ! " The United States , though but little known in Russia at that period , was still looked upon with favor , as a nation destined , in due time , to exert a great influence upon the affairs of the world . Mr. 5.
... the people may choose ! " The United States , though but little known in Russia at that period , was still looked upon with favor , as a nation destined , in due time , to exert a great influence upon the affairs of the world . Mr. 5.
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