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... Observations on a late Publication , entitled , The Present State of the Nation • Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents Speech on American Taxation PAGE . V vii 1 55 207 · 211 347 433 ADVERTISEMENT TO THE PRESENT EDITION ...
... Observations on a late Publication , entitled , The Present State of the Nation • Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents Speech on American Taxation PAGE . V vii 1 55 207 · 211 347 433 ADVERTISEMENT TO THE PRESENT EDITION ...
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... observed before , the chronology of these remote times is extremely un- certain ) opening the scene by a destruction of at least one mil- lion of his species , unprovoked but by his ambition , with- out any motives but pride , cruelty ...
... observed before , the chronology of these remote times is extremely un- certain ) opening the scene by a destruction of at least one mil- lion of his species , unprovoked but by his ambition , with- out any motives but pride , cruelty ...
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... observe little on the Servile , the Social , the Gallic and Spanish wars ; nor upon those with Jugur- tha , nor Antiochus , nor many others equally important , and carried on with equal fury . The butcheries of Julius Cæsar alone are ...
... observe little on the Servile , the Social , the Gallic and Spanish wars ; nor upon those with Jugur- tha , nor Antiochus , nor many others equally important , and carried on with equal fury . The butcheries of Julius Cæsar alone are ...
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... Observe , my Lord , that the five thousand we here speak of , were cut off from a body of no more than nineteen thousand ; for the entire number of citizens was no greater at that time . Could the tyrant who wished the Roman people but ...
... Observe , my Lord , that the five thousand we here speak of , were cut off from a body of no more than nineteen thousand ; for the entire number of citizens was no greater at that time . Could the tyrant who wished the Roman people but ...
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... observed , is no one species of government , but a magazine of every species ; here you find every sort of it , and that in the worst form . . As there is a perpetual change , one rising and the other falling , you have all the violence ...
... observed , is no one species of government , but a magazine of every species ; here you find every sort of it , and that in the worst form . . As there is a perpetual change , one rising and the other falling , you have all the violence ...
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