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... regard , when we shall sleep with the fathers , we protract our own earthly being , and seem to crowd whatever is future , as well as all that is past , into the narrow compass of our earthly existence . As it is not a vain and false ...
... regard , when we shall sleep with the fathers , we protract our own earthly being , and seem to crowd whatever is future , as well as all that is past , into the narrow compass of our earthly existence . As it is not a vain and false ...
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... regard to whatever advances hu- man knowledge , or improves human happiness , we are not altogether unworthy of our origin . There is a local feeling , connected with this occasion , too strong to be resisted ; a sort of genius of the ...
... regard to whatever advances hu- man knowledge , or improves human happiness , we are not altogether unworthy of our origin . There is a local feeling , connected with this occasion , too strong to be resisted ; a sort of genius of the ...
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... regard . This Rock soon became hallowed in the esteem of the Pilgrims , and these hills grate- ful to their sight . Neither they nor their children were again to till the soil of England , nor again to traverse the seas which surround ...
... regard . This Rock soon became hallowed in the esteem of the Pilgrims , and these hills grate- ful to their sight . Neither they nor their children were again to till the soil of England , nor again to traverse the seas which surround ...
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... regard to wealth , and their early laws were of a nature to favor and continue this equality . * A re- publican form of government rests , not more on political constitu- tions , than on those laws which regulate the descent and ...
... regard to wealth , and their early laws were of a nature to favor and continue this equality . * A re- publican form of government rests , not more on political constitu- tions , than on those laws which regulate the descent and ...
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... regard to property , must take place , before our governments can be moved from their republican basis , unless they be violently struck off by military power . The people possess the property , more emphatically than it could ever be ...
... regard to property , must take place , before our governments can be moved from their republican basis , unless they be violently struck off by military power . The people possess the property , more emphatically than it could ever be ...
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