Modern Eloquence, Volume 7Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh John D. Morris, 1900 |
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... reason , by the adjudication of legal and recognized tribunals . It requires a certain . amount of civilization to substitute law for war , reason for force . But , surely , nations that have lived under the beneficent and inspiring ...
... reason , by the adjudication of legal and recognized tribunals . It requires a certain . amount of civilization to substitute law for war , reason for force . But , surely , nations that have lived under the beneficent and inspiring ...
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... reason and the conscience , and if the reason and the conscience will not respond , then , and then only , use force . If the child will obey under the inspiration of affection and argument , by affection and argument secure obedience ...
... reason and the conscience , and if the reason and the conscience will not respond , then , and then only , use force . If the child will obey under the inspiration of affection and argument , by affection and argument secure obedience ...
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... reason , but to rattle off something written on the blackboard of our minds . The faculties we had in common with the raven were thus cultivated at the expense of that apprehension and reason which , Shakespeare tells us , makes man ...
... reason , but to rattle off something written on the blackboard of our minds . The faculties we had in common with the raven were thus cultivated at the expense of that apprehension and reason which , Shakespeare tells us , makes man ...
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