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The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.
James Hurdis

Born: 1763
Died: 1801 (aged 38)
Bio: James Hurdis was an English clergyman and a poet, born in Bishopstone, East Sussex. He studied at St Mary Hall, Oxford, and Magdalen College, Oxford, later becoming a Fellow of Magdalen College.
Known for:
- The village curate
- The Favourite Village
- Poems (1796)