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W e have not often met with any thing more interesting and curious than this
volume . Independent of its being a contemporary narrative of by far the most
animating and important part of our history , it challenges our attention as
containing an ...
W e have not often met with any thing more interesting and curious than this
volume . Independent of its being a contemporary narrative of by far the most
animating and important part of our history , it challenges our attention as
containing an ...
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apprehension , is curious , and of a species hitherto but little explained ; a fallacy
not arising from the double meaning of a word , but from an ambiguity , if such it
may be called , between a name , and the thing which it signifies . There are two
...
apprehension , is curious , and of a species hitherto but little explained ; a fallacy
not arising from the double meaning of a word , but from an ambiguity , if such it
may be called , between a name , and the thing which it signifies . There are two
...
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Dut we must premise a few things respecting the state - paper now before us ,
and its author . ... Fleets , armies , treasure - every thing was sacrificed to France•
humiliations - submissions — every thing was suffered - every thing was done to
...
Dut we must premise a few things respecting the state - paper now before us ,
and its author . ... Fleets , armies , treasure - every thing was sacrificed to France•
humiliations - submissions — every thing was suffered - every thing was done to
...
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thing wong before all pretence , ca ould then the season for comme would he
himself clearly in doms in Italy , - - to take a province or two from the German
princes , - - and to punish , perhaps destroy Prussia . Now , if Bo· naparte ' s
counsellors ...
thing wong before all pretence , ca ould then the season for comme would he
himself clearly in doms in Italy , - - to take a province or two from the German
princes , - - and to punish , perhaps destroy Prussia . Now , if Bo· naparte ' s
counsellors ...
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These things are by no means unimportant , or merely personal to one set of men
. If Europe can yet be saved , it must look for its safety to the only class of
statesmen who have ever showed that great talents and acquirements are not ...
These things are by no means unimportant , or merely personal to one set of men
. If Europe can yet be saved , it must look for its safety to the only class of
statesmen who have ever showed that great talents and acquirements are not ...
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