The World's Best Essays: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volumen2David Josiah Brewer F.P. Kaiser, 1900 |
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... passion that tempts them . If uncertainty of the laws affects a nation , rendered indolent by its climate , its indolence and stupidity is thereby maintained and increased ; if it affects a nation , which though fond of pleasure is also ...
... passion that tempts them . If uncertainty of the laws affects a nation , rendered indolent by its climate , its indolence and stupidity is thereby maintained and increased ; if it affects a nation , which though fond of pleasure is also ...
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... passions at such a period aroused , are a source of infinite evils to unhappy humanity . Whoever ponders on the different histories of the world , which after certain intervals of time are so much alike in their principal episodes ...
... passions at such a period aroused , are a source of infinite evils to unhappy humanity . Whoever ponders on the different histories of the world , which after certain intervals of time are so much alike in their principal episodes ...
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... passions of some few men , or the result of some accidental and temporary necessity . They have never been dictated by an unimpassioned student of human nature , able to concentrate the actions of a multitude of men to a single point of ...
... passions of some few men , or the result of some accidental and temporary necessity . They have never been dictated by an unimpassioned student of human nature , able to concentrate the actions of a multitude of men to a single point of ...
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... passions , or the necessities of war , have taught men to shed one another's blood , the laws , which are intended to moderate human conduct , ought not to extend the savage example , which in the case of a legal execu- tion is all the ...
... passions , or the necessities of war , have taught men to shed one another's blood , the laws , which are intended to moderate human conduct , ought not to extend the savage example , which in the case of a legal execu- tion is all the ...
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... passion . Let us profit by the example . A violent death seemed to us a terrible thing in the descriptions of it that were made to us , but we see it is a matter of a moment . How much less terrible will it be for a man who , not ...
... passion . Let us profit by the example . A violent death seemed to us a terrible thing in the descriptions of it that were made to us , but we see it is a matter of a moment . How much less terrible will it be for a man who , not ...
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