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... whole structure of their social life ; and its History , through alternate advance and retrogression , has been , on the whole , the History of Progress . The political governments of the East are Despotisms , subordinating the ...
... whole structure of their social life ; and its History , through alternate advance and retrogression , has been , on the whole , the History of Progress . The political governments of the East are Despotisms , subordinating the ...
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... whole bathed in the fierce rays of a torrid sun . Shows not this spectacle like the very home of fixedness and immutability ? What is there in Nature's aspect here to instigate change , or so much as suggest the thought of it ? What to ...
... whole bathed in the fierce rays of a torrid sun . Shows not this spectacle like the very home of fixedness and immutability ? What is there in Nature's aspect here to instigate change , or so much as suggest the thought of it ? What to ...
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... whole fishing party can build and season , and successfully concoct , a chowder . The facts themselves are undeniable . No man of a certain age but has observed the truth ; and no philosopher , but has wondered at it . Why is it ...
... whole fishing party can build and season , and successfully concoct , a chowder . The facts themselves are undeniable . No man of a certain age but has observed the truth ; and no philosopher , but has wondered at it . Why is it ...
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... whole troop , now one and now another running up and fluttering his cloak , or with it streaming behind him , or let fall as he fled , nimbly escaping , though often but by a well - timed and dexterous leap of the barrier , from the ...
... whole troop , now one and now another running up and fluttering his cloak , or with it streaming behind him , or let fall as he fled , nimbly escaping , though often but by a well - timed and dexterous leap of the barrier , from the ...
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... whole troop of Chulos and dartmen . At length he stopped short before one of the out - posts , and having for an instant fixed his blood - stained eye on the group it sheltered , drove his shaggy head against it , as if determined to ...
... whole troop of Chulos and dartmen . At length he stopped short before one of the out - posts , and having for an instant fixed his blood - stained eye on the group it sheltered , drove his shaggy head against it , as if determined to ...
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