The Works of William H. Seward, Volume 3Houghton, Mifflin, 1884 |
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... influence without the licentious aid of chiv- alry . Our subject demands , not an exposition of our complex system of government , but only a consideration of its influence upon the national progress , and its own probable durability ...
... influence without the licentious aid of chiv- alry . Our subject demands , not an exposition of our complex system of government , but only a consideration of its influence upon the national progress , and its own probable durability ...
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... influence , probably a controlling one , against a decision to separate by any discontented state . Administration can not always be equally beneficent to all the states , even although it should be always equally just , which is not to ...
... influence , probably a controlling one , against a decision to separate by any discontented state . Administration can not always be equally beneficent to all the states , even although it should be always equally just , which is not to ...
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... influence adequate to a task so ardu- ous as this ? Shall we invoke the press and the desk ? They only reflect the actual condition of the public morals , and can not change them . Shall we resort to the executive authority ? The time ...
... influence adequate to a task so ardu- ous as this ? Shall we invoke the press and the desk ? They only reflect the actual condition of the public morals , and can not change them . Shall we resort to the executive authority ? The time ...
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... influences of the passions and jealousies of that trying period , it seems not too much to say of Lafayette , that by ... influence of Lafayette in bringing about this indispensable and effective interposition by the French king , the ...
... influences of the passions and jealousies of that trying period , it seems not too much to say of Lafayette , that by ... influence of Lafayette in bringing about this indispensable and effective interposition by the French king , the ...
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... influence it gave him in her behalf with good effect , he re - embarked with an additional fleet , a large loan , and a new military force . You all know that , on his arrival he quieted the unhappy controversies still existing among ...
... influence it gave him in her behalf with good effect , he re - embarked with an additional fleet , a large loan , and a new military force . You all know that , on his arrival he quieted the unhappy controversies still existing among ...
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