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... common concerns of life , and not a few are rendered , by the violence of untamed passion , incapable of controlling themselves , much less of go- verning their fellow - creatures . Perhaps it is not rash to suppose that more accurate ...
... common concerns of life , and not a few are rendered , by the violence of untamed passion , incapable of controlling themselves , much less of go- verning their fellow - creatures . Perhaps it is not rash to suppose that more accurate ...
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... common sort was lately about to proceed from the New World to the Old . From that which in 1600 was a dreary wilderness , to that which in 1700 was a cold morass . It was contemplated that a vessel of novel invention , leaving this ...
... common sort was lately about to proceed from the New World to the Old . From that which in 1600 was a dreary wilderness , to that which in 1700 was a cold morass . It was contemplated that a vessel of novel invention , leaving this ...
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... common at that period among the English people . Indeed , the austeri- ity of the moral habits of their immediate descendants , and the remarkable freedom of their language from the provincial dialects of England , afford ample evidence ...
... common at that period among the English people . Indeed , the austeri- ity of the moral habits of their immediate descendants , and the remarkable freedom of their language from the provincial dialects of England , afford ample evidence ...
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... common - place politicians of every age and na- tion , were too much engrossed by the little objects about them , to look forward upon the grand and bright prospects of futurity . Sometimes , moreover , that nar- row policy which ...
... common - place politicians of every age and na- tion , were too much engrossed by the little objects about them , to look forward upon the grand and bright prospects of futurity . Sometimes , moreover , that nar- row policy which ...
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... common- place biography . When Lord Peterborough went to Italy , as ambassa- dor , he took Oglethorpe with him as his secretary , and Berkeley as his chaplain , both of them then very young . b Berkeley's " Essay towards a New Theory of ...
... common- place biography . When Lord Peterborough went to Italy , as ambassa- dor , he took Oglethorpe with him as his secretary , and Berkeley as his chaplain , both of them then very young . b Berkeley's " Essay towards a New Theory of ...
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