War of the Rebellion; Or, Scylla and Charybdis: Consisting of Observations Upon the Causes, Course, and Consequences of the Late Civil War in the United StatesHarper & Brothers, 1866 - 440 strani |
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... nature well calculated to discompose even the philosophic serenity of a Gibbon or a Hume . With such views as these , and with no exorbitant con- ception of my own ability as a writer , it will not be held surprising that I have chosen ...
... nature well calculated to discompose even the philosophic serenity of a Gibbon or a Hume . With such views as these , and with no exorbitant con- ception of my own ability as a writer , it will not be held surprising that I have chosen ...
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... nature of our hetero- geneous institutions ; " and , with all proper courtesy and deference , I shall venture to make direct issue with those , wheresoever they shall be found , who undertake to pro- mulgate the notion that " the ...
... nature of our hetero- geneous institutions ; " and , with all proper courtesy and deference , I shall venture to make direct issue with those , wheresoever they shall be found , who undertake to pro- mulgate the notion that " the ...
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... nature , and there- fore subject to easy processes of modification and amelio- ration in one mode or another , but solid , enduring , and " imbedded in the very nature " of " institutions " thus sol- emnly adjudged to be " heterogeneous ...
... nature , and there- fore subject to easy processes of modification and amelio- ration in one mode or another , but solid , enduring , and " imbedded in the very nature " of " institutions " thus sol- emnly adjudged to be " heterogeneous ...
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... Nature he was then about to visit for the first time , and in company with his esteemed and life - long friend Justice Story . An ac- quaintance of mine , Colonel White , then a representative in Congress from Florida , did me the honor ...
... Nature he was then about to visit for the first time , and in company with his esteemed and life - long friend Justice Story . An ac- quaintance of mine , Colonel White , then a representative in Congress from Florida , did me the honor ...
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... nature , I will cite a single evidence , but one that shall be conclusive . Mr. Calhoun was , of all the eminent statesmen who were in public life at the same time with Mr. Webster , and who were occasionally thrown into serious and ...
... nature , I will cite a single evidence , but one that shall be conclusive . Mr. Calhoun was , of all the eminent statesmen who were in public life at the same time with Mr. Webster , and who were occasionally thrown into serious and ...
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