Elegant Extracts, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations: Principally Designed for the Use of Young Persons, Volume 2S. Walker, 1826 - English letters |
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Page 89
... authority ; if one set of men be forced to fit out ships , to raise supplies , to take up arms ; while others are only to make decrees against them , without any charge , any employment besides ; it is not possible that any thing can be ...
... authority ; if one set of men be forced to fit out ships , to raise supplies , to take up arms ; while others are only to make decrees against them , without any charge , any employment besides ; it is not possible that any thing can be ...
Page 132
... authority , appear cruel as well thority , and execute the most violent as iniquitous to his people . Yet , enterprises upon him , he was natu- without pretending to apologize for rally led to seek for an opportunity these crimes ...
... authority , appear cruel as well thority , and execute the most violent as iniquitous to his people . Yet , enterprises upon him , he was natu- without pretending to apologize for rally led to seek for an opportunity these crimes ...
Page 161
... authority of great names remember without some degree of has brought the nation without doing sensibility . In truth , he was the de- justice at the same time to the great light and ornament of this house , and qualities whence that ...
... authority of great names remember without some degree of has brought the nation without doing sensibility . In truth , he was the de- justice at the same time to the great light and ornament of this house , and qualities whence that ...
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On the Constitution of England Montesquieu | 3 |
Necessity of the Union | 23 |
The Feudal System | 30 |
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