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... sense of having been met , and a larger hori- zon . On looking over the diary of my journey in 1833 , I find nothing to publish in my memoranda of visits to places . But I have copied the few notes I made of visits to persons , as they ...
... sense of having been met , and a larger hori- zon . On looking over the diary of my journey in 1833 , I find nothing to publish in my memoranda of visits to places . But I have copied the few notes I made of visits to persons , as they ...
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... sense of modern society , the utilitarian direction which labor , laws , opinion , re- ligion take , is the natural genius of the British mind . The influence of France is a constituent of modern civility , but not enough opposed to the ...
... sense of modern society , the utilitarian direction which labor , laws , opinion , re- ligion take , is the natural genius of the British mind . The influence of France is a constituent of modern civility , but not enough opposed to the ...
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... sense of superiority founded on habit of victory in labor and in war : and the appetite for superiority grows by feeding . It is easy to add to the counteracting forces to race . Credence is a main element . ' Tis RACE . 51.
... sense of superiority founded on habit of victory in labor and in war : and the appetite for superiority grows by feeding . It is easy to add to the counteracting forces to race . Credence is a main element . ' Tis RACE . 51.
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... sense , steadiness , wise speech and prompt action . But they have a singular turn for homicide ; their chief end of man is to murder or to be murdered ; oars , scythes , harpoons , crowbars , peatknives and hayforks are tools valued by ...
... sense , steadiness , wise speech and prompt action . But they have a singular turn for homicide ; their chief end of man is to murder or to be murdered ; oars , scythes , harpoons , crowbars , peatknives and hayforks are tools valued by ...
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... Sense and economy must rule in a world which is made of sense and economy , and the banker , with his seven per cent . , drives the earl out of his castle . A nobility of soldiers cannot keep down a com- · monalty of shrewd scientific ...
... Sense and economy must rule in a world which is made of sense and economy , and the banker , with his seven per cent . , drives the earl out of his castle . A nobility of soldiers cannot keep down a com- · monalty of shrewd scientific ...
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