The Works of William H. Seward, Volume 3Houghton, Mifflin, 1887 - Legislators |
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... remain so ; because , however widely they expand , they swell in one great and unbroken flood . All exotic elements are rapidly absorbed and completely assimilated . The remnants of the aboriginal and African tribes , seeming incapable ...
... remain so ; because , however widely they expand , they swell in one great and unbroken flood . All exotic elements are rapidly absorbed and completely assimilated . The remnants of the aboriginal and African tribes , seeming incapable ...
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... remains , moreover , in the people the power , when they will , to oblige even that government to act directly and efficiently . The embarrassments of some cities , corporations , and states , in- curred in public enterprises , do not ...
... remains , moreover , in the people the power , when they will , to oblige even that government to act directly and efficiently . The embarrassments of some cities , corporations , and states , in- curred in public enterprises , do not ...
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... remain . The certainty of this result could not but exert a great influence , probably a controlling one , against a decision to separate by any discontented state . Administration can not always be equally beneficent to all the states ...
... remain . The certainty of this result could not but exert a great influence , probably a controlling one , against a decision to separate by any discontented state . Administration can not always be equally beneficent to all the states ...
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... remain , on pain of death if found be- yond its borders . At length , in the year of the gospel of peace on earth and good- will toward men , 1691 - just five hundred and twenty years after the invasion by Henry - the wars which he ...
... remain , on pain of death if found be- yond its borders . At length , in the year of the gospel of peace on earth and good- will toward men , 1691 - just five hundred and twenty years after the invasion by Henry - the wars which he ...
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... remains is to grant it by law , not to concede it by seeming treaty - to emancipate Catho- lic Ireland before her representative can reach the capitol , and to save wounded pride by denying O'Connell the seat to which he has been ...
... remains is to grant it by law , not to concede it by seeming treaty - to emancipate Catho- lic Ireland before her representative can reach the capitol , and to save wounded pride by denying O'Connell the seat to which he has been ...
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