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... the Boston Latin School , was chosen to deliver it . A wise choice ; for no man can be better prepared to trace with accuracy the distresses and duties of nations , or express them with elegance and precision , ORATION. ...
... the Boston Latin School , was chosen to deliver it . A wise choice ; for no man can be better prepared to trace with accuracy the distresses and duties of nations , or express them with elegance and precision , ORATION. ...
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... better be pulled down alto- gether ; -or to drop metaphor and take up slang , that the " Fourth of July is played out . " I would not quote these words before this audience to defend them ; - but they are said , and no one will pretend ...
... better be pulled down alto- gether ; -or to drop metaphor and take up slang , that the " Fourth of July is played out . " I would not quote these words before this audience to defend them ; - but they are said , and no one will pretend ...
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... better way of noting this lapse than by the lives of men . Towards the end of the year 1770 died George Grenville , the first British minister who ever conceived the idea of taxing the American col- onies . It was but about eight years ...
... better way of noting this lapse than by the lives of men . Towards the end of the year 1770 died George Grenville , the first British minister who ever conceived the idea of taxing the American col- onies . It was but about eight years ...
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... and the pro- gress it has caused in the world , when I say this , that but for the resistance inaugurated here , in favor of a new order of things , as against the old tradi- tions of England , -a new order hardly better com- ORATION . 11.
... and the pro- gress it has caused in the world , when I say this , that but for the resistance inaugurated here , in favor of a new order of things , as against the old tradi- tions of England , -a new order hardly better com- ORATION . 11.
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... better com- prehended by our friends like Burke and Chatham , than by our enemies like Grenville and North - but for the revolution , I say , of America in 1770 , it , would not have been physically possible , not morally con ceivable ...
... better com- prehended by our friends like Burke and Chatham , than by our enemies like Grenville and North - but for the revolution , I say , of America in 1770 , it , would not have been physically possible , not morally con ceivable ...
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100 A parcel amount appropriation Atlantic avenue baths Board of Aldermen BOSTONIA CONDITA bounded as follows boys building Chairman Charles Charles H City Council CITY OF BOSTON Cliff street corporal punishment Damages Deer Island described as taken Dorchester East Boston Edward Emma expense extension of Shawmut Faneuil Hall fund George George W Girls grade Grammar School-house Grammar Schools Hanover street Harrison avenue Head Assistant Heirs Henry High and Normal High School Horatio G House hundred instruction James John land before described land belonging land hereinafter described Mary Master northwestwardly by land Number Belonging parcel of land Pet'r Petitioner pipe present Primary School-house Primary Schools proposed extension public schools rooms Rowe's wharf Roxbury Sarah School Committee Shawmut avenue South Boston square feet street loan Sub-Committee teachers tion Total Tremont street Ward Warren West Boston Bridge wharf William