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... never shown hostility to free schools on any strong grounds of principle . Their jealousy has been aroused by the evident financial trouble in which they might be involved . They have been perfectly willing at all times to receive ...
... never shown hostility to free schools on any strong grounds of principle . Their jealousy has been aroused by the evident financial trouble in which they might be involved . They have been perfectly willing at all times to receive ...
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... never have endured the existence of an idle aristocracy in their country . Can anything be better attested than the existence in tribal Ireland of a singularly idle , tyrannical , and plundering aristocracy in the persons of the chiefs ...
... never have endured the existence of an idle aristocracy in their country . Can anything be better attested than the existence in tribal Ireland of a singularly idle , tyrannical , and plundering aristocracy in the persons of the chiefs ...
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... never been born . They will be the executioners of the fate so justly merited by the aristocratic criminals of the past and the present . The cry that theirs is blue blood and that they are the privileged caste will not avail the men ...
... never been born . They will be the executioners of the fate so justly merited by the aristocratic criminals of the past and the present . The cry that theirs is blue blood and that they are the privileged caste will not avail the men ...
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... never have crossed the ocean , discussing English life and manners . It is some consolation to find that Mr. White does not reserve his thunders for a subject of which he knows nothing , and that to the September number of The North ...
... never have crossed the ocean , discussing English life and manners . It is some consolation to find that Mr. White does not reserve his thunders for a subject of which he knows nothing , and that to the September number of The North ...
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... never own a defeat - has left much soreness on every side , while the too fortunate Yankee , navyless and armyless , is not regarded , in a city like Paris , as a past or future enemy , but merely as the welcome victim of hungry ...
... never own a defeat - has left much soreness on every side , while the too fortunate Yankee , navyless and armyless , is not regarded , in a city like Paris , as a past or future enemy , but merely as the welcome victim of hungry ...
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