The Works of William H. Seward, Volume 3Houghton, Mifflin, 1887 - Legislators |
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... peace or security . War , therefore , is occasion- ally necessary , and sometimes inevitable . In such cases it is " danger to avert a danger , a present inconvenience and suffering to prevent a foreseen future and a worse calamity ...
... peace or security . War , therefore , is occasion- ally necessary , and sometimes inevitable . In such cases it is " danger to avert a danger , a present inconvenience and suffering to prevent a foreseen future and a worse calamity ...
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... peace , harmony , and social order , guarantied by irresistible power- and a common name and common destiny with the American people . If it were possible that any one state could act a part so infatuated , it is certain that she could ...
... peace , harmony , and social order , guarantied by irresistible power- and a common name and common destiny with the American people . If it were possible that any one state could act a part so infatuated , it is certain that she could ...
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... peace on earth and good- will toward men , 1691 - just five hundred and twenty years after the invasion by Henry - the wars which he began at first for conquest , and which afterward became a medley of rapine and fanaticism , came to an ...
... peace on earth and good- will toward men , 1691 - just five hundred and twenty years after the invasion by Henry - the wars which he began at first for conquest , and which afterward became a medley of rapine and fanaticism , came to an ...
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... peace , that its wasted strength should be repaired , that the rankling wounds opened during centuries of persecution should be healed , and that Ireland should be admitted to free enjoyment of the civil rights guarantied by the British ...
... peace , that its wasted strength should be repaired , that the rankling wounds opened during centuries of persecution should be healed , and that Ireland should be admitted to free enjoyment of the civil rights guarantied by the British ...
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... peace - a king who could arrest the laws of England , or let them go to execution - a king who could keep his subject people in perpetual endurance , or let them forth at pleasure to a carnival of revenge . O'Connell was no longer the ...
... peace - a king who could arrest the laws of England , or let them go to execution - a king who could keep his subject people in perpetual endurance , or let them forth at pleasure to a carnival of revenge . O'Connell was no longer the ...
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