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I thank God, that if I am gifted with little of the spirit which is able to raise mortals to the skies, I have yet none, as I trust, of that other spirit which would drag angels down.
I thank God, that if I am gifted with little of the spirit which is able to raise mortals to the skies, I have yet none, as I trust, of that other spirit which would drag angels down.
Approximate author period: c. 1817 AD · industrial
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- Daniel Webster
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- Approximate author period: c. 1817 AD · industrial
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Second Speech on Foot's Resolution, Jan. 26, 1830. P. 316.
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