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" As war is the last of remedies, cuncta prius tentanda, all lawful expedients must be used to avoid it. As war is the extremity of evil, it is surely the duty of those whose station intrusts them with the care of nations, to avert it from their charge.... "
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The Beauties of Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - Maxims - 1782 - 482 pages
...p. 91 w. WAR. AS war is the extremity of evil, it is furely the duty of thofe whofe ftation entrufts them with the care of nations, to avert it from their charge. There are difcafes of animal nature which nothing but amputation can remove j fo there may, by the depravation...
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Political tracts. Political essays. Miscellaneous essays. A journey to the ...

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pages
...children may be hanged. As war is the laft of remedies, ctmfta prius tentanda, all lawful expedients muft be ufed to avoid it. As war is the extremity...nations, to avert it from their charge. There are difeafee of animal nature which nothing but amputation can remove ; fo there may, by the depravation...
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The Manual of Liberty, Or, Testimonies in Behalf of the Rights of Mankind ...

Civil rights - 1795 - 432 pages
...to avoid it. As war is the extremity of evil, it is surely the duty of those whose station entrusts them with the care of nations, to avert it from their charge. There are diseases of animal nature which nothing but amputation can remove ; so there may, by the depravation...
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Tracts on Political and Other Subjects, Volume 3

Joseph Towers - France - 1796 - 464 pages
...lawful " expedients muft be ufed to avoid it. As " war «* war is the extremity of evil, it is lurely " the duty of thofe, whofe ftation intrufts " them with the care of nations, to divert ** it from their charge." It feems extraordinary, that a nation fhould be fb injured as to have...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 424 pages
...children may be hanged. As war is the laft of remedies, cunfta prius tentanda, all lawful expedients muft be ufed to avoid it. As war is the extremity...remove ; fo there may, by the depravation of human pafiions, be fometimes a gangrene in collective life for which fire and the fword are the neceflary...
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The School of Wisdom

Readers - 1803 - 250 pages
...creatures fall AS war is the extremity of evil, it is furely the duty thofe whofe ftation entrufts them with the care of nations, to avert it from their charge. There are difeafes of an »nimal nature which- nothing but amputation can remove ; fo there may, by the depravation of human...
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The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations ...

Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...nQ. w. WAR. AS war is the extremity of evil, it is surely the duty of those whose station entrusts them with the care of nations, to avert it from their charge. There are diseases of an animal nature which nothing but amputation can remove; so there may, by the depravation...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 336 pages
...to avoid it. As war is the extremity of evil, it is surely the duty of those whose station intrusts them with the care of nations, to avert it from their charge. There are diseases of animal nature which nothing but amputation can remove ; so there may, by the depravation...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson: With an Essay on His Life and Genius

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 424 pages
...to avoid it. As war is the extremity of evil, it is surely the duty of those whose station intrusts them with the care of nations, to avert it from their charge. There are diseases of animal nature which nothing but amputation can remove ; so there may, by the depravation...
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Works, Volume 8

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 pages
...to avoid it. As war is the extremity of evil, it is surely the duty of those whose station intrusts them with the care of nations, to avert it from their charge. There are diseases of animal nature which nothing but amputation can remove ; so there may, by the depravation...
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