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I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our forefathers, as Israel of old, from their native land, and planted them in a country flowing with all the necessaries and comforts of life.

Thomas Jefferson

Second Inaugural Address of Thomas Jefferson

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Topic

America and Israel God and America

Speaker

Thomas Jefferson

Source

Second Inaugural Address of Thomas Jefferson Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1805 1800s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Jefferson, Thomas. "Second Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1805, Senate Chamber, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

England expects that every man will do his duty.

Admiral Horatio Nelson

Flag signal at the Battle of Trafalgar.

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Topic

England Duty

Author

Admiral Horatio Nelson

Source

Flag Signal at the Battle of Trafalgar

Language

English

Time

1805 1800s 19th century

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Citation

Nelson, Horatio. Flag Signal at the Battle of Trafalgar. 21 Oct. 1805.

I am ill every time it blows hard, and nothing but my enthusiastic love for the profession keeps me one hour at sea.

Horatio Nelson

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Seasickness Sailing Vocation

Author

Horatio Nelson

Source

Letters of Horatio Nelson

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1804 1800s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Nelson, Horatio. Letter to the Earl of Camden, the Secretary of War. c. 1804.

In looking at objects of Nature while I am thinking, as at yonder moon dim-glimmering through the dewy window-pane, I seem rather to be seeking, as it were asking for, a symbolical language for something within me that already and for ever exists, than observing anything new.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The ineffable The moon Nature

Author

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source

Anima Poetae

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1805 1800s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Notebook entry. 14 Apr. 1805.

Current Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. The Cambridge Companion to Coleridge, edited by Lucy Newlyn. Cambridge University Press, 2002.