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... greater than if they were animated by revenge for their own proper wrongs. It is no less worth observing, that this artificial division of mankind into separate societies is a perpetual source in itself of hatred and dissension among ...
... greater than if they were animated by revenge for their own proper wrongs. It is no less worth observing, that this artificial division of mankind into separate societies is a perpetual source in itself of hatred and dissension among ...
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... greater and greater strides to that gulf of despotism which at last swallows up every species of government. The manner of ruling being directed merely by the.
... greater and greater strides to that gulf of despotism which at last swallows up every species of government. The manner of ruling being directed merely by the.
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... greater part of mankind groan under, and have groaned under from the beginning. So that, by sure and uncontested principles, the greatest part of the governments on earth must be concluded tyrannies, impostures, violations of the ...
... greater part of mankind groan under, and have groaned under from the beginning. So that, by sure and uncontested principles, the greatest part of the governments on earth must be concluded tyrannies, impostures, violations of the ...
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... greater part of it, in their own persons; their laws were made by themselves, and, upon any failure of duty, their officers were accountable to themselves, and to them only. In all appearance, they had secured by this method the ...
... greater part of it, in their own persons; their laws were made by themselves, and, upon any failure of duty, their officers were accountable to themselves, and to them only. In all appearance, they had secured by this method the ...
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... greater horror, when you observe, not one man only, but a whole city, grown drunk with pride and power, running with a rage of folly into the same mean and senseless debauchery and extravagance? But if this people resembled Nero in ...
... greater horror, when you observe, not one man only, but a whole city, grown drunk with pride and power, running with a rage of folly into the same mean and senseless debauchery and extravagance? But if this people resembled Nero in ...
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