Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions, Том 1C.C. Little and J. Brown, 1850 |
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... population of a large state , which can thus bring itself , or by happy chance can fall , into the sphere of metropolitan favor , it follows , that the mass of the people are cut off from the operation of those motives to exertion ...
... population of a large state , which can thus bring itself , or by happy chance can fall , into the sphere of metropolitan favor , it follows , that the mass of the people are cut off from the operation of those motives to exertion ...
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... population has been , to provide and to diffuse the means of education . The village school - house and the village church are the monuments of our republicanism ; to read , to write , and to discuss grave affairs , in their primary ...
... population has been , to provide and to diffuse the means of education . The village school - house and the village church are the monuments of our republicanism ; to read , to write , and to discuss grave affairs , in their primary ...
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... population , with the constant re- currence of elections , however favorable to civil liberty , are unfriendly to learning ; that they kindle only a political ambition ; and particularly , that they seduce the aspiring youth , from the ...
... population , with the constant re- currence of elections , however favorable to civil liberty , are unfriendly to learning ; that they kindle only a political ambition ; and particularly , that they seduce the aspiring youth , from the ...
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... population , its entire force is required for administration and defence . We are receding from this stage , but have not yet reached , although we are rapidly approaching , that in which a crowded popula- tion produces a large amount ...
... population , its entire force is required for administration and defence . We are receding from this stage , but have not yet reached , although we are rapidly approaching , that in which a crowded popula- tion produces a large amount ...
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... population , as the various occasions of an enterprising and prosperous community , placed on the widest theatre of action ever opened to man , call into strong action and vigorous competition the cultivated talent of the country , some ...
... population , as the various occasions of an enterprising and prosperous community , placed on the widest theatre of action ever opened to man , call into strong action and vigorous competition the cultivated talent of the country , some ...
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