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My best beloved and approved…
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So many problems are calling for solution that a recital of all of them, in the face of the known limitations of a short session of Congress, would seem to lack sincerity…
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Believing that they would benefit militarily by allying themselves with a powerful nation, the revolutionary…
(Saxon, of; Latin, ab, from, away). The house is a mile off —i.e. is “away” or “from” us a mile. The word preceding off defines its scope. To be “well off” is to be away or on the way…
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