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Page 65
This is a fact so well established , as to be admitted by the advocates of the
common reading . . But such a fact as this , a fact which would have force in
ordinary cases and with ordinary men like ourselves , makes no impression on
such ...
This is a fact so well established , as to be admitted by the advocates of the
common reading . . But such a fact as this , a fact which would have force in
ordinary cases and with ordinary men like ourselves , makes no impression on
such ...
Page 126
It should be distinctly recorded , as it may possibly be a fact worth knowing long
after their pamphlets and names have perished , that they have not only
represented that the effort to supplant paganism by peaceful Christian instruction
may be ...
It should be distinctly recorded , as it may possibly be a fact worth knowing long
after their pamphlets and names have perished , that they have not only
represented that the effort to supplant paganism by peaceful Christian instruction
may be ...
Page 141
To be told that this is just the common - place with which dull and envious
moralists have always railed against martial glory , will not in the slightest degree
modify their apprehension of a plain matter of fact . What signifies it whether
moralists ...
To be told that this is just the common - place with which dull and envious
moralists have always railed against martial glory , will not in the slightest degree
modify their apprehension of a plain matter of fact . What signifies it whether
moralists ...
Page 224
It involves a total misapprehension , with respect both to the fact and the principle
. What is it that we are told , and with so much triumph , from places of the highest
authority , on the evidence of the custom house itself , with regard to the fact ?
It involves a total misapprehension , with respect both to the fact and the principle
. What is it that we are told , and with so much triumph , from places of the highest
authority , on the evidence of the custom house itself , with regard to the fact ?
Page 245
The same facts furnish him with contradictory conclusions ; and , in some
instances , having magnified an objection into something very formidable , in the
same page he degrades it into the veriest absurdity that ever disgraced the
human ...
The same facts furnish him with contradictory conclusions ; and , in some
instances , having magnified an objection into something very formidable , in the
same page he degrades it into the veriest absurdity that ever disgraced the
human ...
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