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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you any relation of St. Peter's?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nobody ever thought so," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I didn't know, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I thought I'd like to ask you some questions about him i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's my grandmother's recipe," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shouldn't suppose they would have been discovered then, she said, after a struggle." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Pumpkin pies don't go out of style like clothes, do they, grandmother?" }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's the matter, child? said grandmother, sitting up in bed with a start." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are you sick?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, grandmother, awful! You'll never like me again, I know." }, { "from": "gpt", "value"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The critter don't stop crying long enough to catch a mouse," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He almost did this morning, Hannah, said Ethelwyn in his defense." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I saw him watching a hole, and he's so little yet, I grabbed him ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is a chance for Johnny Bear to make a reputation as a mouser, said grandmother." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We will take him up-stairs to-night and he shall have a chance to catch that mouse." }, { "from": "human", "value": "O grandmother, I'm sur...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How does middle night look, Nancy?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Like any other time, only stiller, replied Nancy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Go to sleep now, Miss Ethelwyn." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hush, Johnny Bear, dear, she said softly from the other room;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't think twelve o'clock at night looks stiller, do you, grandmother? she asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Aren't you glad Johnny Bear came to live with us, and--oh! oh!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "O Johnny, how could you?" }, { "fro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O may I stay up?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's like a funeral," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, child, what do you know about funerals?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well of all things--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm not going to say anything more, she thought," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, chicken, said grandmother," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not very much, said Ethelwyn." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm so ashamed to think I didn't get any ice cream--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's some saved for you; and ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well there! I was wondering what we would do with all the things that were left, but I needn't have worried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, the mothers are the only ones that need worry,--over the after results," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll say the first and last letter of something in the surrey or that we can see, and then whoever guesses it can give two letters. So she gave" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and Beth guessed mother at once; then Beth gave" }, { "from": "human", "value": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Helen paid him a big price and went off with Polly on her finger chattering like one mad." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "O I'd love to see her," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well go over there some day. Here we are at home." }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Haven't we saved this money, though?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let's each buy a puppy for a parting gift to Bobby and Nan," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, sir, let's, said Beth." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They dearly love Bose, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My sister is sick, he explained," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why don't you tell mother?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "O it's everything your mother's done for us this summer, without bothering her more, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "val...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O that cunning baby I Where'd you get him?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Allus had him, mos', she said;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't you like to play with him?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I don't, was the emphatic reply;" }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mother's gone to town to-day to see your grandfather, who owns a bank, Bobby," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I expect it's on account of his losing a whole lot of money," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Where did he lose it? Were there holes in his pocket...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Has you all seen anything of a low down black pickaninny which is los'?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Which is _stole_," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Is it Samuel Saul?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is so; will you projus him?" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Americky, you go bring me you brudda," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, our dollar's gone, and our baby too, and I thought we had made such a bargain. I don't know what Mr. Smithers will say." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And poor Joe too," }, { "from": "human", "value": "There comes Mr. Smithers now," }, { "fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh mother, did he lose anything of ours?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can't tell yet, dearest ones, she said after a while." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have been very foolish to leave so much of our money in one bank, I am afraid, but I had such faith, too much, perhaps, and I fear--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If there's anything I'm glad of, it's that I know how to write, said Ethelwyn." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was very hard to learn." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Little Fanny wears a hat, Like her ancient granny; Tommy's hoop was--think of that-- Given him by Fanny." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "P.S.--My mother said because she had faith in you was why you have our money, and so have we." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "P.S.--Be sure to have plenty of candy for supper." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And we will need it," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Two of our dollars are gone to help take Joe's sister to the Home, Beth explained," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You dear children, I'll keep these and your letter, as long as I live, so as not to forget your faith in me." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's not right," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What isn't right, grandfather?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Giving all your money away to people who don't appreciate it," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How do you know they don't?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Because, sir, people don't appreciate what is given to them, as much as they do what they earn." },...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps you are right, Mrs. Rayburn, he said gently." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The world is all too selfish;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is indeed, came the emphatic answer." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There is no crime, there ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's--it's--Dick! Dick who used to walk on crutches!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My sakes! Aren't you mended up well, though?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dick is the first patient of the Home, said Mrs. Rayburn," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She is well but could not leave to come to the train, said Dick." }, { "from": "human", "value": "She can hardly wait to see you, though." }, { "from": "gpt",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Welcome home! Welcome home!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To give sad children's hearts a joy, To give the weary rest, To give to those who need it sore, This makes a life most blest." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm nearer conviction than I was," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "After all, life to be beautiful and to reach rightly towards eternity should be helpful, and self-forgetful; do you not think so? she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was long learning the two great commandments, which embody the whole decalogue, and I probably...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you children don't make this box lighter at once, I shall have no use for you," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good-night, good-night, Children and blossoms who sleep all the night, Always will wake up happy and bright, Good-night, good-night!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When the children are thievish and given to bad language and lying, what do you do?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In some way they seem to shed those things, as a worm does its cocoon, after they are here for a while, she answered." }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Comet" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "the mechanical power implied by" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "the ability to control assured in the title" }, { "from": "human", "value": "all combined with the personality and enthusiasm of girls themselves, make this story one for any girl or other rea...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and yet everything happens" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nomad" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nomad to the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Discoverer, from the sea to the sky, the scene changes in which the Motor Rangers figure. They have experiences" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Boys of '76" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Boys of '61" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Little Phil" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "BACKWOODS POET." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "BACKWOODS POET." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Backwoods Poet to our affection and appreciation are now presented. Perhaps he is not the greatest of the thirty or forty that might be named who in our State have as poets achieved more or less local distinction. He modestly disclaimed such honor, and assumed himself the title ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "While I was yet an infant, my father with his family settled down in a wilderness, where I grew up with the population, rarely ever going out of the neighborhood for forty years. The old log school house, with a single window and a single door, was my _alma mater_, the green woo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Backwoods Poems." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A Heart's History, and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Vision of Blood," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What you say is true; He's awkward and he's plain; But then, you know, he's rich; And wealth with some will gain. --" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Indeed, I never heard of that," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I only got a glance at him At Mrs. Jenkins'...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of the South, loth to accept the verdict of the sword and submit to reconstruction. In this gathering, apart from their connection with the author, two or three of these poems no doubt will be interesting for their historical value alone." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Vision of Blood" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fresh tidings from the battle field! A widowed mother stands, And lifts the glasses from her eyes With trembling withered hands." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fresh tidings from the battle field!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Your only son is slain; H...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fresh tidings from the battle field! The wife her needle plies, While in the cradle at her feet Her sleeping infant lies." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fresh tidings from the battle field!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Your husband is no more, But he ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Daughters of Southland and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My Motherland." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Old School House," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Deserted Home," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Autumn," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Frost and the Forest," }, { "from": "human", "value": "My Castle," }, { "fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Songs of the South." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Backwoods Poems." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'd leave behind Something immortal of my heart and mind." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Unfinished," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My canvas is not full; a vacant space Remains untouched. To f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good literature is therefore" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and thus in our investigation of the subject we are led to examine the ordinance referred to, and which we find in the statutes entitled," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "An ordinance for the Territory of the United States Northwest of the River Ohio, to see if it cont...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of the city of Natchez were authorized by a majority vote to elect municipal officers, and the act further reads that" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All free male inhabitants, subject to taxation, who shall be in the occupancy of a room or rooms separate and apart to himself, shall be deemed a householder, within the meaning of this act, and shall be entitled to vote at the town elections." }, { "from": "gpt", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Every free white male person of the age of twenty-one years or upwards, who shall be a citizen of the United States and shall have resided in this state one year, next preceding an election, and the last six months within the county, city or town in which he offers to vote and s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "were made voters in Shieldsborough (Now Bay St. Louis) in 1818, in Greenville (Jefferson county) in 1819, and in Holmesville in 1820; and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "were allowed to vote on the subject of the location of the Madison County court house by act appro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "were allowed to vote in municipal election at Port Gibson, and so too were the owners of land in that town, if the land had been assessed and taxes paid on it, whether the owner resided in the corporate limits or elsewhere; and I am advised the law of that town so remained until...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Every free white male person of the age of twenty-one years or upwards, who shall be a citizen of the United States, and shall have resided in this state one year next preceding an election, and the last four months within the county, city or town in which he offers to vote, sha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No person shall vote at any election whatever in this state, who shall have been convicted by the verdict of a jury and the final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, of bribery, perjury, forgery, or other high crimes or misdemeanors, unless the person so convicted sha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "should exercise the right of suffrage, thus recognizing the constitutional rule. In many instances additional qualifications to those named in the constitution were imposed, thus, residence for a specified time within the corporate limits was required in 1833 for Columbus, Amste...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "made voters, the case of Greenwood Springs, 1871, though, as we have seen, this was a favorite idea in the early days of the state. In 1882 the spirit of liberality was given full scope by the act providing that" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "the tenth qualification as enumerated above, been severely criticised. Thus we find in the American Law Review of January-February, 1892, the following:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is quite apparent that this clause was never intended to be carried out faithful...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It has been supposed that this clause was a concession made in the interest of illiterate whites; but whether this be so or not, a general and indiscriminate requirement that all voters shall be able to read and write is, in my judgment, not contrary to the fundamental principle...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "a refusal to advertise his incapacity, while the negroes as a rule have but little to lose; but another truth is that with scarcely an exception the negroes are thoroughly content with the constitution, and are satisfied to be measured for registration and voting by its standard...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "is not without a parallel in the constitutions of other states; as was pointed out by Senator George of this state in the United States Senate, it is no more difficult of honest administration than are the provisions of the constitutions of other states: for example, the constit...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "or" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and it is left to a vote in the counties, or parts of counties can vote upon it. This question is left to" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "or" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "election is possibly an exception to the general rule of the state that a plurality vote elects or carries. I say, possibly is an exception, because of ambiguity in the statute, construed as I think it may be seen by some minds, it w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The southern boundary of the United States, which divides their territory from the Spanish colonies of East and West Florida, shall be designated by a line beginning on the River Mississippi at the northernmost part of the thirty-first degree of latitude north of the equator, wh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I endeavored to conclude another treaty with the same states, and had the satisfaction to succeed in my object; _I obtained unexpected advantages_, and met with sympathy, loyalty, and generous sentiments in that nation of Republicans." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The object of Great Britain in her treaty with the United States about this period, was to attach them to her interests, and even render them dependent on her, and, therefore, the Spanish treaty of limits was made to counterbalance it; but as Great Britain had totally failed in ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was expected that several states would separate from the union, which would absolve Spain from her engagements; because, as her contract was made with the union, it would be no longer obligatory than while the union lasted. That Spain, contrary to her expectations, was not li...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As____the great body of the inhabitants (of the territory) appear not to desire the patronage of the Spanish Government to secure it (their real estate); as the Government of the United States must be at least as anxious as that of Spain to protect the inhabitants in their right...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is probably the first time that to 'withdraw,' or retire from a place, has been imagined to intend its destruction. If, at the formation of the treaty, the demolition of the posts had been intended, it would assuredly have been expressed." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If the posts of the Natchez and Walnut Hills 'are the only bulwarks of Lower Louisiana, to stop the course of the British,' as the Baron alerts and if, therefore, Spain is justifiable in holding them, she may retain them, without any limitation of time, for her security in any f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "[55] He maintained further that the suspicion of a British invasion from Canada was groundless for the following reasons:--(1) Preparations for such an expedition would have attracted attention and rendered satisfactory proofs attainable; (2) the troops of the United States, sta...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Never, perhaps, was conceived a more absurd idea, than that of marching troops from the Ohio to the State of Tennessee, and thence to the Natchez, in the whole a tedious, difficult and expensive route of many hundred miles, chiefly through a wilderness; when, if the United State...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "History is the grandest study in the world. That remark made the profoundest impression upon my student imagination. I said to myself," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If History is the grandest study in the world, that is exactly the study I want." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The history of mankind is the history of its great men; to find out these, clean the dirt from them, and place them on their proper pedestals, is the true function of the historian." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century, that brilliant account of Sir Francis Drake, Sir John Hawkins, and the great captains of England who gained a new world for Elizabeth and defeated the Spanish Armada. You should also read Froude's Lectures on the" }, { "from": "gp...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The individual withers, but the world is more and more." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When found, make a note of! Recall the saying of Lord Bacon:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory." }, { "from": "hum...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In books the past is ours as well as the present. With them we live yesterday over again. All the bygone ages are with us, and we look on the face of the infancy of the world. We see the first dawning of thought in man. We are present at the beginnings of cities, states, and nat...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There are no standards of history," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The life of each individual, says Dr. W. T. Harris, the American Hegel," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Know Thyself to advancing time. There is something indescribably solemn in the historic pausing of Man before the temple of the unknown future and seeking to realiz...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "History is a divine drama, designed to educate man into self-knowledge and the knowledge of God, (Henry James, Sr., on" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Carlyle," }, { "from": "human", "value": "And I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, A...