| Jean-Gabriel Peltier, James Adams - Ambigu - 1803 - 494 pages
...habits of their people as one of the main objects of their policy. Frequent hostilities seem almost the necessary condition of their greatness; and, without...remain safe. Smaller states exempted from this cruel necessity-—a hard condition of greatness, a bitter satire on 'hurrian nature—devoted themselves... | |
| 1804 - 552 pages
...habits of their people, as one of the main objects of their policy. Frequent hostilities seem almost the necessary condition of their greatness ; and,...reason. They became places of refuge for free and fearless discussion ; they were the impartial spectators and judges of the various contests of ambition,... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 514 pages
...habits of their people as one of the main objects of their policy. Frequent hostilities seem almost the necessary condition of their greatness ; and,...reason. They became places of refuge for free and fearless discussion ; they were the impartial spectators and judges of the various contests of ambition,... | |
| Oratory - 1808 - 542 pages
...one of the main objects of their policy. Frequent hostilities seem almost the necessary condition of of their greatness; and, without being great, they...remain safe. Smaller states exempted from this cruel necessity—a hard condition of greatness, a bitter satire on human nature—devoted themselves to... | |
| Thomas Browne (LL.D.) - Oratory - 1810 - 516 pages
...habits of their people as one of the main objects of their policy. Frequent hostilities seem almost the necessary condition of their greatness ; and,...reason. They became places of refuge for free and fearless discussion ; they were the impartial spectators and judges of the various contests of ambition,... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1824 - 1008 pages
...habits of their people as one of the main objects of their policy. Frequent hostilities seem almost the necessary condition of their greatness ; and,...reason. They became places of refuge for free and fearless discussion ; they were the impartial spectators and judges of the various contests of ambition,... | |
| John Galt - 1824 - 462 pages
...habits of their people as one of the main objects of their policy. Frequent hostilities seem almost the necessary condition of their greatness ; and,...reason. They became places of refuge for free and fearless discussion ; they were the impartial spectators and judges of the various contests of ambition,... | |
| John Galt - Scotland - 1824 - 470 pages
...habits of their people as one of the main objects of their policy. Frequent hostilities seem almost the necessary condition of their greatness ; and,...reason. They became places of refuge for free and fearless discussion; they were the impartial spectators and judges of the various contests of ambition,... | |
| John Galt - Scotland - 1824 - 474 pages
...habits of their people as one of the main objects of their policy. Frequent hostilities seem almost the necessary condition of their greatness; and, without...remain safe. Smaller states, exempted from this cruel necessity—a hard condition of greatness, a bitter satire on human nature—devoted themselves to... | |
| Trials - 1820 - 742 pages
...habits ol their people as one of the main objects ol their policy. Frequent hostilities seem almost the necessary condition of their greatness ; and,...a hard condition of greatness, a bitter satire on hunuu nature — devoted themselves to the arts of peace, to the cultivation of litcra lure, and the... | |
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