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... constitution may have enabled us to pursue , are the least agree- able and the first faded of all our recollections . They have per- formed their part in accelerating the stream of time , as it passed lazily through the hour - glass of ...
... constitution may have enabled us to pursue , are the least agree- able and the first faded of all our recollections . They have per- formed their part in accelerating the stream of time , as it passed lazily through the hour - glass of ...
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... Constitution , Captain Hull ; on the 25th of October , the Macedonian , Cap- tain Carden , by the United States , Commodore Decatur ; and on the 29th of December , the Java , Captain Lambert , by the Consti- tution , Commodore ...
... Constitution , Captain Hull ; on the 25th of October , the Macedonian , Cap- tain Carden , by the United States , Commodore Decatur ; and on the 29th of December , the Java , Captain Lambert , by the Consti- tution , Commodore ...
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... Constitution are acknowledged by the Americans to be precisely similar in size and force to the President , except that each , we believe , mounted fifty - four instead of fifty - two guns ; and that the Constitution carried thirty ...
... Constitution are acknowledged by the Americans to be precisely similar in size and force to the President , except that each , we believe , mounted fifty - four instead of fifty - two guns ; and that the Constitution carried thirty ...
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... Constitution , of experience and of great respectability , who is now dead , assured the writer that he actually weighed the shot of both ships , and found that the Constitution's twenty - fours were only three pounds heavier than the ...
... Constitution , of experience and of great respectability , who is now dead , assured the writer that he actually weighed the shot of both ships , and found that the Constitution's twenty - fours were only three pounds heavier than the ...
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... Constitution's superiority is reduced from one - third to little more than one - eighth ! Now , some difference does fre- quently exist between shot of the same weight , in consequence of the metal being more or less compressed by the ...
... Constitution's superiority is reduced from one - third to little more than one - eighth ! Now , some difference does fre- quently exist between shot of the same weight , in consequence of the metal being more or less compressed by the ...
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