The True Grandeur of Nations: An Oration Delivered Before the Authorities of the City of Boston, July 4, 1845J. H. Eastburn, City Printer, 1845 - 104 páginas |
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... natural consequence of the predominance of the animal part of our nature ; but the day has now arrived in which we should declare Independence of the bestial propensities , and recog- nize the supremacy of the moral and intellectual ...
... natural consequence of the predominance of the animal part of our nature ; but the day has now arrived in which we should declare Independence of the bestial propensities , and recog- nize the supremacy of the moral and intellectual ...
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... natural state of mankind was war , and to sustain the exulting language of the soldier in our own day , who has said : " War is the condition of this world . From man to the smallest insect , all are at strife ; and the glory of arms ...
... natural state of mankind was war , and to sustain the exulting language of the soldier in our own day , who has said : " War is the condition of this world . From man to the smallest insect , all are at strife ; and the glory of arms ...
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... nature in which it has its origin . Listen to the voice of the ancient poet of Baotian Ascra : This is the law for mortals ordained by the Ruler of Heaven ; Fishes and Beasts and Birds of the air devour each other ; JUSTICE dwells not ...
... nature in which it has its origin . Listen to the voice of the ancient poet of Baotian Ascra : This is the law for mortals ordained by the Ruler of Heaven ; Fishes and Beasts and Birds of the air devour each other ; JUSTICE dwells not ...
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... nature , in which alone we differ from the beasts , in which alone we approach the Divinity , in which alone are the ele- ments of justice , the professed object of war , are dethroned . It is , in short , a temporary adoption , by men ...
... nature , in which alone we differ from the beasts , in which alone we approach the Divinity , in which alone are the ele- ments of justice , the professed object of war , are dethroned . It is , in short , a temporary adoption , by men ...
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... nature might be gathered from the early fields of modern literature , as well as from the more ancient , all showing the unconscious degradation of the soldier , who , in the pursuit of justice , renounces the human character to assume ...
... nature might be gathered from the early fields of modern literature , as well as from the more ancient , all showing the unconscious degradation of the soldier , who , in the pursuit of justice , renounces the human character to assume ...
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