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... matter , and which requires a great variety of considerations , is to be made ; when we must seek in a profound ... matters which are , as it were , just within our reach , what would become of the world , if the practice of all moral ...
... matter , and which requires a great variety of considerations , is to be made ; when we must seek in a profound ... matters which are , as it were , just within our reach , what would become of the world , if the practice of all moral ...
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... matter enough to fill ten pages , though it should be spun out by the wire - drawing amplification of a Guicciar- dini himself . The glaring side is that of enmity . War is the matter which fills all history , and consequently the only ...
... matter enough to fill ten pages , though it should be spun out by the wire - drawing amplification of a Guicciar- dini himself . The glaring side is that of enmity . War is the matter which fills all history , and consequently the only ...
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... matter . I once more excuse myself in point of exactness for want of books . But I shall estimate the slaughters in this island but at two millions ; which your Lordship will find much short of the reality . Let us pass by the wars ...
... matter . I once more excuse myself in point of exactness for want of books . But I shall estimate the slaughters in this island but at two millions ; which your Lordship will find much short of the reality . Let us pass by the wars ...
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... matters which are apt to divert our attention from it , the characters , actions , and designs of the persons concerned , are not taken into the account . These wars , I mean those called the Punic wars , could not have stood the human ...
... matters which are apt to divert our attention from it , the characters , actions , and designs of the persons concerned , are not taken into the account . These wars , I mean those called the Punic wars , could not have stood the human ...
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... matters not here by what means , to become at several times extremely populous , and to supply men for slaughters scarcely credible , if other well- known and well - attested ones had not given them a colour . The first settling of the ...
... matters not here by what means , to become at several times extremely populous , and to supply men for slaughters scarcely credible , if other well- known and well - attested ones had not given them a colour . The first settling of the ...
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