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... wrong by the mere force of argument , he may be unable to answer your argument but he will feel like a man who has been whipped in a physical encounter - though technically defeated he still holds to his former opinions . There is much ...
... wrong by the mere force of argument , he may be unable to answer your argument but he will feel like a man who has been whipped in a physical encounter - though technically defeated he still holds to his former opinions . There is much ...
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... wrong , the time spent on it cannot be said to be wasted . In any event , the student should keep his mind open for the reception of ideas which will make his analysis clearer , briefer , and more forcible . EXERCISES IN ANALYSIS 1 ...
... wrong , the time spent on it cannot be said to be wasted . In any event , the student should keep his mind open for the reception of ideas which will make his analysis clearer , briefer , and more forcible . EXERCISES IN ANALYSIS 1 ...
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... wrong and said so . Douglas denounced Lincoln for his attitude in the matter and declared that it was unpatriotic , disloyal , and revolutionary for any man to criticize a decision of the United States Supreme Court . On the other hand ...
... wrong and said so . Douglas denounced Lincoln for his attitude in the matter and declared that it was unpatriotic , disloyal , and revolutionary for any man to criticize a decision of the United States Supreme Court . On the other hand ...
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... wrong . He must be able to turn to the exact volume and page . He may be confident that an authority , which he has quoted as favoring his position , is really on his side of the case ; but if he cannot give an exact reference to the ...
... wrong . He must be able to turn to the exact volume and page . He may be confident that an authority , which he has quoted as favoring his position , is really on his side of the case ; but if he cannot give an exact reference to the ...
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... wrong conclusion , and if you get a wrong conclusion the whole syllogism will be wrong . High sounding oratorical phrases and sentences are often confusing . Plain- ness is sometimes avoided by the speaker for the express purpose of ...
... wrong conclusion , and if you get a wrong conclusion the whole syllogism will be wrong . High sounding oratorical phrases and sentences are often confusing . Plain- ness is sometimes avoided by the speaker for the express purpose of ...
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Page 99 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push...
Page 291 - This they said and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth, that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit.
Page 100 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 111 - When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech farther than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force and earnestness, are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech.
Page 221 - Permit me, Sir, to add another circumstance in our colonies, which contributes no mean part towards the growth and effect of this untractable spirit. I mean their education. In no country perhaps in the world is the law so general a study.
Page 200 - Now, as we have already said in an earlier part of this opinion, upon a different point, the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution.
Page 266 - If, then, the removal of the causes of this spirit of American liberty be for the greater part, or rather entirely, impracticable; if the ideas of criminal process be inapplicable, or, if applicable, are in the highest degree inexpedient; what way yet remains? No way is open but the third and last^-to comply with the American spirit as necessary; or, if you please, to submit to it as a necessary evil.
Page 113 - ... piece in — in such a case we find it impossible not to believe that Stephen and Franklin and Roger and James all understood one another from the beginning, and all worked upon a common plan or draft drawn up before the first blow was struck. It should not be overlooked that by the Nebraska Bill the people of a State as well as Territory were to be left " perfectly free," "subject only to the Constitution.
Page 117 - Then, Sir, from these six capital sources: of descent, of form of government, of religion in the northern provinces, of manners in the southern, of education, of the' remoteness of situation from the first mover of government — from all these causes a fierce spirit of liberty has grown up.
Page 113 - But you will not abide the election of a Republican President! In that supposed event, you say, you will destroy the Union; and then, you say, the great crime of having destroyed it will be upon us! That is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, "Stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer!