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... course , shut out all humanizing influences from abroad ; and so long as they persist in repelling all foreign impulses to improvement , they must needs continue , even as now , uncivilized and barbarian . If any should now , as is ...
... course , shut out all humanizing influences from abroad ; and so long as they persist in repelling all foreign impulses to improvement , they must needs continue , even as now , uncivilized and barbarian . If any should now , as is ...
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... course , communi- cate some direction , as well as fix some limitation , to man's activity , since it belongs to him not to create , but to apply means and materials furnished to his hand . That the inhabitants of the Tropics should ...
... course , communi- cate some direction , as well as fix some limitation , to man's activity , since it belongs to him not to create , but to apply means and materials furnished to his hand . That the inhabitants of the Tropics should ...
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Manufactures must , of tion , must needs too be scanty in amount . course , share the fate of Commerce , the one being stimulant and feeder to the other . And with the drooping of both these , must lie dormant the industry and inventive ...
Manufactures must , of tion , must needs too be scanty in amount . course , share the fate of Commerce , the one being stimulant and feeder to the other . And with the drooping of both these , must lie dormant the industry and inventive ...
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... course had run , And I , still travelling , clambering still , Stood up at last on Manhood's hill : Strengthened alike in mind and frame , But marred with features still the same : Still finding daily on my road , The worth that ...
... course had run , And I , still travelling , clambering still , Stood up at last on Manhood's hill : Strengthened alike in mind and frame , But marred with features still the same : Still finding daily on my road , The worth that ...
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... course again ; At length a grass - green , winding lane Through sheltering woods our footsteps brings , To one of Nature's bounties , springs : Here sit we down for rest and breath , A knotty , spreading oak beneath , Whose roots drank ...
... course again ; At length a grass - green , winding lane Through sheltering woods our footsteps brings , To one of Nature's bounties , springs : Here sit we down for rest and breath , A knotty , spreading oak beneath , Whose roots drank ...
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