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Page 70
... consider to what extent confidence and honors are reposed in and con- ferred upon lawyers by the people , it appears improbable that their impression of dishonesty is very distinct and vivid . Yet the impression is common , almost ...
... consider to what extent confidence and honors are reposed in and con- ferred upon lawyers by the people , it appears improbable that their impression of dishonesty is very distinct and vivid . Yet the impression is common , almost ...
Page 93
... considers the result a signal triumph of good principles and good men , and a very pointed rebuke of bad ones . He says the people did it . He forgets that the " people , " as he complacently calls only those who voted for Buchanan ...
... considers the result a signal triumph of good principles and good men , and a very pointed rebuke of bad ones . He says the people did it . He forgets that the " people , " as he complacently calls only those who voted for Buchanan ...
Page 100
... consider all men created equal— equal with " certain inalienable rights , among which are life , liberty , and the pursuit of happiness . " This they said , and this they meant . They did not mean to assert the ob- vious untruth that ...
... consider all men created equal— equal with " certain inalienable rights , among which are life , liberty , and the pursuit of happiness . " This they said , and this they meant . They did not mean to assert the ob- vious untruth that ...
Page 125
... considers it , he sits in the shade , with gloves on his hands , and subsists on the bread that Sambo is earning in the burning sun . If he decides that God wills Sambo to continue a slave , he thereby retains his own comfortable ...
... considers it , he sits in the shade , with gloves on his hands , and subsists on the bread that Sambo is earning in the burning sun . If he decides that God wills Sambo to continue a slave , he thereby retains his own comfortable ...
Page 129
... consider an evil , but it lays the foundation for spreading that evil into the States themselves . We propose so resisting it as to have it reversed if we can , and a new judicial rule established upon this subject . I will add this ...
... consider an evil , but it lays the foundation for spreading that evil into the States themselves . We propose so resisting it as to have it reversed if we can , and a new judicial rule established upon this subject . I will add this ...
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