Speeches and Forensic Arguments, Volume 1Perkins & Marvin, 1838 |
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Page 47
... course , be great and powerful landholders with multitudes of retainers , to promise success . But if the proprietors of a given extent of terri- tory are summoned to resistance , there is no reason to believe that such resistance would ...
... course , be great and powerful landholders with multitudes of retainers , to promise success . But if the proprietors of a given extent of terri- tory are summoned to resistance , there is no reason to believe that such resistance would ...
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... course , is not always to be measured by mere numbers . - Education , wealth , talents , are all parts and elements of the general aggregate of power ; but numbers , nevertheless , constitute ordinarily the most important consideration ...
... course , is not always to be measured by mere numbers . - Education , wealth , talents , are all parts and elements of the general aggregate of power ; but numbers , nevertheless , constitute ordinarily the most important consideration ...
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... course of things , as much is not gained by a wide diffusion of general knowledge , as is lost by abridging the number of those whom fortune and leisure enable to devote themselves exclusively to scientific and literary pursuits ...
... course of things , as much is not gained by a wide diffusion of general knowledge , as is lost by abridging the number of those whom fortune and leisure enable to devote themselves exclusively to scientific and literary pursuits ...
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... course of trade might be turned hither and to our benefit ; but we must be dead to every idea of justice , lost to all feelings of humanity , could we in- dulge a thought to seize on wealth , and raise our fortunes on the ruin of our ...
... course of trade might be turned hither and to our benefit ; but we must be dead to every idea of justice , lost to all feelings of humanity , could we in- dulge a thought to seize on wealth , and raise our fortunes on the ruin of our ...
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... course , and lighted his pathless way , descend , one by one , beneath the rising horizon , we should have felt that the stream of time had borne us onward , till another great luminary , whose light had cheered us , and whose guid ...
... course , and lighted his pathless way , descend , one by one , beneath the rising horizon , we should have felt that the stream of time had borne us onward , till another great luminary , whose light had cheered us , and whose guid ...
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