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... objects which embellish your city , and spread the influence of learning , genius , and taste , over the hearts and minds of its numerous in- habitants . Your conduct has proved your conviction , that , in order to promote virtue and ...
... objects which embellish your city , and spread the influence of learning , genius , and taste , over the hearts and minds of its numerous in- habitants . Your conduct has proved your conviction , that , in order to promote virtue and ...
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... objects of more curiosity , and , perhaps , some of greater utility . The observation of the various results in legis- lation or jurisprudence , in public and individual charac- ter , which have been produced in this great school of ...
... objects of more curiosity , and , perhaps , some of greater utility . The observation of the various results in legis- lation or jurisprudence , in public and individual charac- ter , which have been produced in this great school of ...
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... object . Rejecting with scorn , every lure which interest or ambition held out to tempt him from his course , refuting , by the blameless sanctity of his life , all the calumnies which were show- ered upon him , despising danger ...
... object . Rejecting with scorn , every lure which interest or ambition held out to tempt him from his course , refuting , by the blameless sanctity of his life , all the calumnies which were show- ered upon him , despising danger ...
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... object , he discussed some of the most interesting questions of liberty and public law , with a courage and truth of which modern Europe had seen no example . It is a remarkable fact , and one which bears honourable testimony to the ...
... object , he discussed some of the most interesting questions of liberty and public law , with a courage and truth of which modern Europe had seen no example . It is a remarkable fact , and one which bears honourable testimony to the ...
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... objects of history . He strips away from vice the apo- logy and consolation which it finds in the frailty of err- ing virtue . He excites the ingenious mind to measure its ambition by a more perfect standard of moral and in- tellectual ...
... objects of history . He strips away from vice the apo- logy and consolation which it finds in the frailty of err- ing virtue . He excites the ingenious mind to measure its ambition by a more perfect standard of moral and in- tellectual ...
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