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being more difficult for an artful government to induce a people to ruin themselves , than for a profligate people to subvert their government and throw all around them into confusion . In places where chagrin predominates , Louis XVIII ...
being more difficult for an artful government to induce a people to ruin themselves , than for a profligate people to subvert their government and throw all around them into confusion . In places where chagrin predominates , Louis XVIII ...
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... becoming more and more rapid , every consideration , natural or moral , is of moment , through which the present wholesome dependence on Great Britain may be affected . 17 ART . II . - Memoir of the Ruins 16 Public Affairs .
... becoming more and more rapid , every consideration , natural or moral , is of moment , through which the present wholesome dependence on Great Britain may be affected . 17 ART . II . - Memoir of the Ruins 16 Public Affairs .
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... ruins is in the environs of Hellah , a town situated on the Euphrates , built out of its ruins in the tenth century , and distant about forty- eight miles from Bagdad . This opinion is founded on , 1st . the latitude of the place , as ...
... ruins is in the environs of Hellah , a town situated on the Euphrates , built out of its ruins in the tenth century , and distant about forty- eight miles from Bagdad . This opinion is founded on , 1st . the latitude of the place , as ...
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... ruins of great edifices still remain . " Niehbur the intelligent traveller , and the pre- sent explorer of these ruins , attest that it still bears its ancient denomination . It may be remarked that in scarcely any district of Asia have ...
... ruins of great edifices still remain . " Niehbur the intelligent traveller , and the pre- sent explorer of these ruins , attest that it still bears its ancient denomination . It may be remarked that in scarcely any district of Asia have ...
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... ruins , explored by him with such persevering assiduity correspond with those ancient accounts , in regard to their dimensions , their internal arrangement , and the antiquities occasionally dug out of their subterraneous recesses ...
... ruins , explored by him with such persevering assiduity correspond with those ancient accounts , in regard to their dimensions , their internal arrangement , and the antiquities occasionally dug out of their subterraneous recesses ...
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