The Works of William H. Seward, Volume 3Houghton, Mifflin, 1887 |
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... virtues , of the people . The religion of the Redeemer of mankind has been left to perform its func- tions by purifying the motives and refining the affections , free from restraint and corruption by the civil power . Thus we have seen ...
... virtues , of the people . The religion of the Redeemer of mankind has been left to perform its func- tions by purifying the motives and refining the affections , free from restraint and corruption by the civil power . Thus we have seen ...
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... virtue bring to their pos- sessor . Arbitrary power procures the performance of duty only by the terror of penalties . Laws relying on that motive alone will be ineffectual , whether written in the statute - book in blood , or engraven ...
... virtue bring to their pos- sessor . Arbitrary power procures the performance of duty only by the terror of penalties . Laws relying on that motive alone will be ineffectual , whether written in the statute - book in blood , or engraven ...
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... virtues , and by our courage and resolution , our moderation and our magnanimity , to cheer and sustain its future followers through the baptism of blood and the martyrdom of fire . A ... virtue can THE TRUE GREATNESS OF OUR COUNTRY . 23.
... virtues , and by our courage and resolution , our moderation and our magnanimity , to cheer and sustain its future followers through the baptism of blood and the martyrdom of fire . A ... virtue can THE TRUE GREATNESS OF OUR COUNTRY . 23.
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... virtue can withstand , none ever encountered , such seductions as these . Our own vir- ' tue and moderation must be ... virtue ? Where should we go , but there , where all republican virtue begins and must end - where the Promethean fire ...
... virtue can withstand , none ever encountered , such seductions as these . Our own vir- ' tue and moderation must be ... virtue ? Where should we go , but there , where all republican virtue begins and must end - where the Promethean fire ...
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... virtue to exult in the glory which her youthful refugee had won in the cause of freedom . That pride co - operating with the enthusiasm awakened there by the announcement of the capture of Burgoyne , enabled the American commissioners ...
... virtue to exult in the glory which her youthful refugee had won in the cause of freedom . That pride co - operating with the enthusiasm awakened there by the announcement of the capture of Burgoyne , enabled the American commissioners ...
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