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... course , handed his torch to another ; to assign also their due meed of honour to those among them , statesmen and sovereigns as well as mere writers , who were really actuated by an ardent longing for the improvement of the condition ...
... course , handed his torch to another ; to assign also their due meed of honour to those among them , statesmen and sovereigns as well as mere writers , who were really actuated by an ardent longing for the improvement of the condition ...
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... course around him ; and the impatience produced heart - sickness , with something of its accompanying mis- anthropy . Domestic causes , also , had their effect in in- creasing these morbid sensations . With great capacities for innocent ...
... course around him ; and the impatience produced heart - sickness , with something of its accompanying mis- anthropy . Domestic causes , also , had their effect in in- creasing these morbid sensations . With great capacities for innocent ...
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... course of improvement and mitigation under wise laws and humane habits , it is certain to be in the opposite course of deterioration . There is no standing still on so fearful a declivity . Unless progressive emancipation be the object ...
... course of improvement and mitigation under wise laws and humane habits , it is certain to be in the opposite course of deterioration . There is no standing still on so fearful a declivity . Unless progressive emancipation be the object ...
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... course of natural amelioration , gradual measures for their extinc- tion may be successfully undertaken ; when they are be- coming gradually worse , such measures are impracticable , and , if they are to be reformed at all , it can only ...
... course of natural amelioration , gradual measures for their extinc- tion may be successfully undertaken ; when they are be- coming gradually worse , such measures are impracticable , and , if they are to be reformed at all , it can only ...
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... course of superin- tendence , ' writes a Viennese conservative some years later , approvingly , and , nevertheless , horses ' , dogs ' , and cats ' flesh is eaten at Vienna , and the tradesmen and artisans are being ruined , while the ...
... course of superin- tendence , ' writes a Viennese conservative some years later , approvingly , and , nevertheless , horses ' , dogs ' , and cats ' flesh is eaten at Vienna , and the tradesmen and artisans are being ruined , while the ...
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