Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Jay” in chapter 1 of George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10:
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It is good to look away from the strifes of the present hour, to the great days when our country had for its statesmen Washington and John Adams, Jefferson and Hamilton, Franklin and Jay , and their compeers.
The study of those times will always teach lessons of moderation, and of unselfish patriotism.
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