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Page 17
In proportion as they belong to better times and better nations , they have the more authority ; and , therefore , we have preferred those taken from the Greeks and the Romans . Nor are the judgments delivered in such histories to be ...
In proportion as they belong to better times and better nations , they have the more authority ; and , therefore , we have preferred those taken from the Greeks and the Romans . Nor are the judgments delivered in such histories to be ...
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His great mind brooded over that earlier chaos of opinion ; and from his heart and brain , more than from those of any other , came a revelation to the modern world of new and better paths toward mercy and peace .
His great mind brooded over that earlier chaos of opinion ; and from his heart and brain , more than from those of any other , came a revelation to the modern world of new and better paths toward mercy and peace .
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I know of nothing which better marks the high moral tone of modern history than that the sublime code of international law should have come into form and established its authority over the civilized world within so short a time ; for it ...
I know of nothing which better marks the high moral tone of modern history than that the sublime code of international law should have come into form and established its authority over the civilized world within so short a time ; for it ...
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The houses were better than those he had seen before , and he believed that the houses would improve as he approached the mainland . They were made like booths , very large , and looking like tents in a camp without regular streets ...
The houses were better than those he had seen before , and he believed that the houses would improve as he approached the mainland . They were made like booths , very large , and looking like tents in a camp without regular streets ...
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I did this because the men would behave better in Spain if they had women of their own land , than without them . For on many occasions the men of Guinea have been brought to learn the language in Portugal , and afterwards , when they ...
I did this because the men would behave better in Spain if they had women of their own land , than without them . For on many occasions the men of Guinea have been brought to learn the language in Portugal , and afterwards , when they ...
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| Title | Old South Leaflets Old South Leaflets, Old South Association Issue 5 of Old South leaflets: Annual series |
| Contributor | Old South Association |
| Publisher | Directors of the Old South Work, 1902 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 13 Mar 2010 |
| Length | 8 pages |
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