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Extract from Edgar Allan Poe’s Review of Francis L. Hawks’s Contributions to the Ecclesiastical History of the United States of America, Mar. 1836 [Quote]

It is with no little astonishment that we have seen Dr. Hawks accused of illiberality in his few remarks upon “that noble monument of liberty,” the Act for the Establishment of Religious Freedom. If there is any thing beyond simple justice in his observations we, for our own parts, cannot...

Extract from Edgar Allan Poe’s Review of an Address, on the Subject of a Surveying and Exploring Expedition to the Pacific Ocean and South Seas [after Apr. 1836] [Quote]

The appalling weight of responsibility of those who serve their country in such an expedition, is strikingly illustrated by the instructions given to Lewis and Clarke, in 1803, by President Jefferson ... The sage, who had conceived and matured the plan of the expedition to the far west, in his...
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