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... the future . Standing armies are some- times , ( I would by no means say generally , much less universally , ) composed of persons who have rendered themselves unfit to live in civil society ; who have AT BOSTON , MARCH 5 , 1774 . 23.
... the future . Standing armies are some- times , ( I would by no means say generally , much less universally , ) composed of persons who have rendered themselves unfit to live in civil society ; who have AT BOSTON , MARCH 5 , 1774 . 23.
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... less terrible than slavery . thing was so much the object of their abhorrence as a tyrant's power . They knew it was more safe to dwell with man , in his most unpolished state , than in a country where arbitrary power prevails . Even an ...
... less terrible than slavery . thing was so much the object of their abhorrence as a tyrant's power . They knew it was more safe to dwell with man , in his most unpolished state , than in a country where arbitrary power prevails . Even an ...
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... less ready to take the field for bat- tle than for labor ; and the insidious foe was driven from their borders as often as he ventured to disturb them . The crown of England looked with indiffer- ence on the contest ; our ancestors were ...
... less ready to take the field for bat- tle than for labor ; and the insidious foe was driven from their borders as often as he ventured to disturb them . The crown of England looked with indiffer- ence on the contest ; our ancestors were ...
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... less malice , but with more art . Under the plausible pretence of regulating our trade , and , at the same time , of making provision for the administration of justice and the support of gov- ernment , in some of the colonies , they ...
... less malice , but with more art . Under the plausible pretence of regulating our trade , and , at the same time , of making provision for the administration of justice and the support of gov- ernment , in some of the colonies , they ...
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... I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery : and in proportion to the magni- tude of the subject ought to be the freedom of Mr HENRY'S Speech in the Convention of Delegates of Virginia, March 23, 1775,
... I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery : and in proportion to the magni- tude of the subject ought to be the freedom of Mr HENRY'S Speech in the Convention of Delegates of Virginia, March 23, 1775,
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