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... republic employs emulation ; it offers wealth , power , and fame , and it dis- tributes these rewards with impartiality and justice , in exact pro- portion to the intelligence of the people . Nor does such emula- tion endanger the ...
... republic employs emulation ; it offers wealth , power , and fame , and it dis- tributes these rewards with impartiality and justice , in exact pro- portion to the intelligence of the people . Nor does such emula- tion endanger the ...
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... republic . Our empire enlarges . The cas- tles of enemies fall before our advancing armies ; the gates of cities open to receive them . The continent and its islands seem ready to fall within our grasp , and more than even fabulous ...
... republic . Our empire enlarges . The cas- tles of enemies fall before our advancing armies ; the gates of cities open to receive them . The continent and its islands seem ready to fall within our grasp , and more than even fabulous ...
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... republic with enthusiasm and with exultation ? What wonder that the exiled Pulaski , and the outlawed Kosciusko , as well as the ardent Steuben and De Kalb , hastened to defend it with their arms ; or that it kindled the flame of ...
... republic with enthusiasm and with exultation ? What wonder that the exiled Pulaski , and the outlawed Kosciusko , as well as the ardent Steuben and De Kalb , hastened to defend it with their arms ; or that it kindled the flame of ...
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... republic , together with the often promised , but long deferred aid of a squadron , which was now despatched under the command of D'Estaing . In acknowledgment of the influence of Lafayette in bringing about this indispensable and ...
... republic , together with the often promised , but long deferred aid of a squadron , which was now despatched under the command of D'Estaing . In acknowledgment of the influence of Lafayette in bringing about this indispensable and ...
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... republic was past . Danton , Marat , and Robespierre , had perished on the same scaf- fold which , during Lafayette's absence , had drunk the blood of Louis and Marie Antoinette . The foundations of the empire were already laid on the ...
... republic was past . Danton , Marat , and Robespierre , had perished on the same scaf- fold which , during Lafayette's absence , had drunk the blood of Louis and Marie Antoinette . The foundations of the empire were already laid on the ...
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