The North American Review, Volume 127Jared Sparks, Henry Cabot Lodge, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell O. Everett, 1878 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... ment is the end , and the ballot is worthless except so far as it helps to reach this end . Any reasonable man would willingly renounce his privilege of dropping a piece of paper into a box , provided that good government were assured ...
... ment is the end , and the ballot is worthless except so far as it helps to reach this end . Any reasonable man would willingly renounce his privilege of dropping a piece of paper into a box , provided that good government were assured ...
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... ment , then it will become possible - not , perhaps , peaceably to abolish a debased suffrage - but to counteract and so far neutralize it that it may serve as a safety - valve and cease to be a danger . There are prophets of evil who ...
... ment , then it will become possible - not , perhaps , peaceably to abolish a debased suffrage - but to counteract and so far neutralize it that it may serve as a safety - valve and cease to be a danger . There are prophets of evil who ...
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... ment are of more avail than knowledge , training , and real ability ; or , in other words , where the politician carries the day and not the statesman ; where fitness for a high place is not the essential condition of reaching it , and ...
... ment are of more avail than knowledge , training , and real ability ; or , in other words , where the politician carries the day and not the statesman ; where fitness for a high place is not the essential condition of reaching it , and ...
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... ment . These may frighten children , and men and women weak as children , but highly - developed men are beyond them , and look down with pity , not unmixed with contempt , on those who are swayed by them . True , there is a judgment ...
... ment . These may frighten children , and men and women weak as children , but highly - developed men are beyond them , and look down with pity , not unmixed with contempt , on those who are swayed by them . True , there is a judgment ...
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... ment as the source of his information , and from it he obtained a formal list of the " pigeon - holed " treaties . Mr. Fish , as its head , being the only officer connected with it who was brought into constant communication with the ...
... ment as the source of his information , and from it he obtained a formal list of the " pigeon - holed " treaties . Mr. Fish , as its head , being the only officer connected with it who was brought into constant communication with the ...
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