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... object was not reform but destruction . An English Minister had boasted - not very wisely - that he had only to hold ... objects at which we.
... object was not reform but destruction . An English Minister had boasted - not very wisely - that he had only to hold ... objects at which we.
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Francis Hitchman. ception in our minds of the objects at which we aim and the line of conduct which we intend to pursue , we shall be arresting the progress of Italy and aggravating every misfortune which has been brought under our ...
Francis Hitchman. ception in our minds of the objects at which we aim and the line of conduct which we intend to pursue , we shall be arresting the progress of Italy and aggravating every misfortune which has been brought under our ...
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... objects they propose by accepting those principles of international law which in civilised communities have always been upheld , and to impress upon them that , instead of vaunting that they will build their greatness on the Monroe ...
... objects they propose by accepting those principles of international law which in civilised communities have always been upheld , and to impress upon them that , instead of vaunting that they will build their greatness on the Monroe ...
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... object of making them bite them was to destroy their caste . Immediately on this becoming known , it was observed that all the traces of a wide spread insurrectionary organisation were visible in India ; that chupatties ( cakes of ...
... object of making them bite them was to destroy their caste . Immediately on this becoming known , it was observed that all the traces of a wide spread insurrectionary organisation were visible in India ; that chupatties ( cakes of ...
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... objects for which we had gone to war ? The reason was , that our plenipotentiary , himself a member of the Cabinet , had blun- dered over his work . Yet , instead of the mistake being avowed and rectified , every means was taken to ...
... objects for which we had gone to war ? The reason was , that our plenipotentiary , himself a member of the Cabinet , had blun- dered over his work . Yet , instead of the mistake being avowed and rectified , every means was taken to ...
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Page 452 - Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and species of property in the country.
Page 290 - That it be an instruction to the committee that they have power to alter the law of rating ; and to provide that in every parliamentary borough the occupiers of tenements below a given ratable value be relieved from liability to personal rating...
Page 304 - I think England is safe in the race of men who inhabit her; that she is safe in something much more precious than her accumulated capital — her accumulated experience ; she is safe in her national character, in her fame, in the tradition of a thousand years, and in that glorious future which I believe awaits her.
Page 427 - Her Majesty's new Ministers proceeded in their career like a body of men under the influence of some delirious drug. Not satiated with the spoliation and anarchy of Ireland, they began to attack every institution and every interest, every class and calling in the country.
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Page 297 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?