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... strength of the popular will is , Samson - like , heaving at the pillars of a tyranny that has long doomed men to blindness as well as to bondage ; but it too often threatens , in its maddened violence , to bring ruin both on the ...
... strength of the popular will is , Samson - like , heaving at the pillars of a tyranny that has long doomed men to blindness as well as to bondage ; but it too often threatens , in its maddened violence , to bring ruin both on the ...
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... strength for some gigantic conflict . Recent events too are bringing them more fully upon the confines of each other ; and in these times remarkable for setting at defiance the ordinary calculations of politicians , some colli- sion of ...
... strength for some gigantic conflict . Recent events too are bringing them more fully upon the confines of each other ; and in these times remarkable for setting at defiance the ordinary calculations of politicians , some colli- sion of ...
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... strength of mil- lions ; not producing merely the chivalrous valor of the high bred cavalier , but drawing forth the might that slumbers in a peasant's arm . The greatest achievements of genius , the noblest efforts of hero- ism that ...
... strength of mil- lions ; not producing merely the chivalrous valor of the high bred cavalier , but drawing forth the might that slumbers in a peasant's arm . The greatest achievements of genius , the noblest efforts of hero- ism that ...
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... strength of a daughter , who in her best deeds be- stows a high commendation on her early training . Let both remember that they equally belong to that race of the human family by whose labors truth and righteousness are soon to be ...
... strength of a daughter , who in her best deeds be- stows a high commendation on her early training . Let both remember that they equally belong to that race of the human family by whose labors truth and righteousness are soon to be ...
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... strength in agriculture . But , not- withstanding these diversities in free States , still these are great features which cannot be severed from public liberty without either impairing or de- stroying it ; and these , we say , are all ...
... strength in agriculture . But , not- withstanding these diversities in free States , still these are great features which cannot be severed from public liberty without either impairing or de- stroying it ; and these , we say , are all ...
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