Speeches and Forensic Arguments, Volume 1Perkins & Marvin, 1838 |
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... effect in advancing or retarding human knowledge , in overthrowing or estab- lishing despotism , in extending or destroying human happiness . When the traveller pauses on the plain of Marathon , what are the emotions which most strongly ...
... effect in advancing or retarding human knowledge , in overthrowing or estab- lishing despotism , in extending or destroying human happiness . When the traveller pauses on the plain of Marathon , what are the emotions which most strongly ...
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... effect- ually . Those who immediately exercised it were Roman ; the tone and tendency of its administration , Roman . Rome herself continu- ed to be the heart and centre of the great system which she had es- tablished . Extortion and ...
... effect- ually . Those who immediately exercised it were Roman ; the tone and tendency of its administration , Roman . Rome herself continu- ed to be the heart and centre of the great system which she had es- tablished . Extortion and ...
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... effect of this was immediately visible in the New England colonies ; for the fear of Indian hostilities on the frontiers being now happily removed , settlements went on with an activity before that time alto- gether unprecedented , and ...
... effect of this was immediately visible in the New England colonies ; for the fear of Indian hostilities on the frontiers being now happily removed , settlements went on with an activity before that time alto- gether unprecedented , and ...
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... effects of a growing commerce soon afterwards began to break in on this state of things , and before the revolution in ... effect of a subdivision of property on government , is now making in France . It is under- stood , that the law ...
... effects of a growing commerce soon afterwards began to break in on this state of things , and before the revolution in ... effect of a subdivision of property on government , is now making in France . It is under- stood , that the law ...
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... effect . And yet , although the representatives of the three kingdoms listened to him with astonishment as well as de- light , we hear no principles , with which we ourselves have not been familiar from youth ; we see nothing in the ...
... effect . And yet , although the representatives of the three kingdoms listened to him with astonishment as well as de- light , we hear no principles , with which we ourselves have not been familiar from youth ; we see nothing in the ...
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