Text-book of Prose, from Burke, Webster, and Bacon, with Notes, and Sketches of the Authors' Lives, for Use in Schools and ClassesGinn, Heath, & Company, 1881 |
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... politics of the hour ; but in the true grounds and forces of social and political well - being it is discouragingly ignorant , while it is more and more casting off those habits of mod- esty and reverence which might do the work of ...
... politics of the hour ; but in the true grounds and forces of social and political well - being it is discouragingly ignorant , while it is more and more casting off those habits of mod- esty and reverence which might do the work of ...
Page 328
... political system . So that you can hardly touch any point of our stupendous National Fabric , but that he will approve himself at once your wisest and your pleasantest teacher . In fact , I hardly know which to commend most , his political ...
... political system . So that you can hardly touch any point of our stupendous National Fabric , but that he will approve himself at once your wisest and your pleasantest teacher . In fact , I hardly know which to commend most , his political ...
Page 329
... political metaphysics , and to those speculative abstractions which , if attempted to be carried into the practical work of government , can never do any thing but mischief . In regard to the selections from Bacon , I there had nothing ...
... political metaphysics , and to those speculative abstractions which , if attempted to be carried into the practical work of government , can never do any thing but mischief . In regard to the selections from Bacon , I there had nothing ...
Page 339
... political canvass . It was a charge , of which there was not only no proof or probability , but which was in itself ... politics of South Carolina in his pocket , nor was his strength by any means confined to that State . enemies of the ...
... political canvass . It was a charge , of which there was not only no proof or probability , but which was in itself ... politics of South Carolina in his pocket , nor was his strength by any means confined to that State . enemies of the ...
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... political machine . It moves vast bodies , and gives to them one and the same direc- 6 This " Missouri question " was upon the admission of Missouri as a slave . holding State , in 1820. The question was agitated a long time with ...
... political machine . It moves vast bodies , and gives to them one and the same direc- 6 This " Missouri question " was upon the admission of Missouri as a slave . holding State , in 1820. The question was agitated a long time with ...
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