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Yet never were two honest, fearless, patriotic, and brave men more unlike each other.
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Hoar notes the stark differences between two honest and brave men, emphasizing their contrasting natures despite their virtues.
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Nov 15, 2021
This Treaty would make us a vulgar, common place empire, controlling subject races and vassal states, in which one class must forever rule and other classes forever obey.
His pure and lofty counsel fell unheeded upon the ears of his near neighbors, and the people of Massachusetts did not listen very patiently to lectures on political purity or reform in civil service from New York city.
It relates to matters more permanent than human life.
What was said helped to arouse public attention, and the masses of the people--always pure and incorruptible--set themselves earnestly and successfully to reform the abuses.
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