Modern Eloquence, Volume 7Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh John D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 106
... principles of the Con- stitution , it is the best government on earth , I also believe that , administered without the lines of the Constitution , by the simple power of a sectional majority , it becomes the worst on earth ; and for ...
... principles of the Con- stitution , it is the best government on earth , I also believe that , administered without the lines of the Constitution , by the simple power of a sectional majority , it becomes the worst on earth ; and for ...
Page 168
... principles and institutions to which they owed their newly acquired rights of possession . It was characterized by all the vir- tues and disfigured by all the abuses of which the senti- ment is capable . It was more intense , more ...
... principles and institutions to which they owed their newly acquired rights of possession . It was characterized by all the vir- tues and disfigured by all the abuses of which the senti- ment is capable . It was more intense , more ...
Page 188
... principles of our nature , of which I have pre- viously spoken . Again , Self - culture is social , or one of its great offices is to unfold and purify the affections which spring up in- stinctively in the human breast , which bind ...
... principles of our nature , of which I have pre- viously spoken . Again , Self - culture is social , or one of its great offices is to unfold and purify the affections which spring up in- stinctively in the human breast , which bind ...
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