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... principles . Augustus Schlegel said of authorship that according to the spirit in which it has been pursued , it is an infamy or a virtue . So of politics . They constitute a great moral and intellectual science . In its pursuit ...
... principles . Augustus Schlegel said of authorship that according to the spirit in which it has been pursued , it is an infamy or a virtue . So of politics . They constitute a great moral and intellectual science . In its pursuit ...
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... principles which actuated a constitutional opposition in time of civil war . It was either the good or bad fortune of the writer to antagonize with the adminis- tration of his own party on the territorial questions from 1856 to 1860 ...
... principles which actuated a constitutional opposition in time of civil war . It was either the good or bad fortune of the writer to antagonize with the adminis- tration of his own party on the territorial questions from 1856 to 1860 ...
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... principle which Madison laid down before the late war of 1812- " that war was only and rarely tolerable as a necessary evil , to be kept off as long , and whenever it takes place , to be closed as soon as possible . " When this civil ...
... principle which Madison laid down before the late war of 1812- " that war was only and rarely tolerable as a necessary evil , to be kept off as long , and whenever it takes place , to be closed as soon as possible . " When this civil ...
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... principles of economic science and unrestricted interchange to which the civilization of the age has given body and spirit . The stupendous iniquity by which one set of States and one class of men are allowed gra- tuities from the ...
... principles of economic science and unrestricted interchange to which the civilization of the age has given body and spirit . The stupendous iniquity by which one set of States and one class of men are allowed gra- tuities from the ...
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... principles enunciated in them . That these principles are destined to play a large part in our future , is already ... principle had been violated in that seizure . I am a firm advocate of the Democracy of the Sea ; I could not have ...
... principles enunciated in them . That these principles are destined to play a large part in our future , is already ... principle had been violated in that seizure . I am a firm advocate of the Democracy of the Sea ; I could not have ...
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