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Page 43
... violent , and which , in such cases , is a remedy only because it is violent , it is idle to think of mitigating and diluting . Languid war can do nothing which negotiation or submission will not do better and to act on any other ...
... violent , and which , in such cases , is a remedy only because it is violent , it is idle to think of mitigating and diluting . Languid war can do nothing which negotiation or submission will not do better and to act on any other ...
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... violent move- ments would produce an equally violent reaction , than that too little would be done in the way of change . But narrow- ness of intellect , and flexibility of principle , though they may be serviceable , can never be ...
... violent move- ments would produce an equally violent reaction , than that too little would be done in the way of change . But narrow- ness of intellect , and flexibility of principle , though they may be serviceable , can never be ...
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... violent reaction took place in favour of Charles the Second against the Whigs in 1681. Thus it was that an equally violent reaction took place in favour of George the Third against the coalition . in 1784. A similar action was beginning ...
... violent reaction took place in favour of Charles the Second against the Whigs in 1681. Thus it was that an equally violent reaction took place in favour of George the Third against the coalition . in 1784. A similar action was beginning ...
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HALLAMS HISTORY | 3 |
RANKES HISTORY OF THE POPES | 31 |
INDEX | 38 |
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