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... institutions ; and there are Catalines and Hotspurs who would love to have it so , as it would open to them the fields of treachery and blood in which they delight . But there are men also of sober and re- flecting minds , who look on ...
... institutions ; and there are Catalines and Hotspurs who would love to have it so , as it would open to them the fields of treachery and blood in which they delight . But there are men also of sober and re- flecting minds , who look on ...
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... institution that has sprung from the ambition or the policy of man , seems tending toward a general wreck ; and the efforts of states- men to prevent the catastrophe , seem only to accele- rate it . The gigantic strength of the popular ...
... institution that has sprung from the ambition or the policy of man , seems tending toward a general wreck ; and the efforts of states- men to prevent the catastrophe , seem only to accele- rate it . The gigantic strength of the popular ...
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... institutions , both civil and religious . " Deceiving and being deceived , despising dominion , and speaking evil of dignities , " they carry with them a hardened and unblushing ambition to pull down every thing which is built up 22 ...
... institutions , both civil and religious . " Deceiving and being deceived , despising dominion , and speaking evil of dignities , " they carry with them a hardened and unblushing ambition to pull down every thing which is built up 22 ...
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... institutions from God ; and if , after the example of our fathers , * we embalm them in our prayers as a gift from him , and are faithful to the trust he has reposed in us , then shall we still continue to possess them . They shall be ...
... institutions from God ; and if , after the example of our fathers , * we embalm them in our prayers as a gift from him , and are faithful to the trust he has reposed in us , then shall we still continue to possess them . They shall be ...
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... institutions , imbued with the spirit of the Bible , are designed to effect . The Roman patrician knew nothing of it , nor did he act upon it . Had you told him that he was sprung from the same dust as the humble plebeian , he would ...
... institutions , imbued with the spirit of the Bible , are designed to effect . The Roman patrician knew nothing of it , nor did he act upon it . Had you told him that he was sprung from the same dust as the humble plebeian , he would ...
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