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... judge that the country which was the seat of the war must have been an equal sufferer . But I am content to detract from this , and to suppose that the Indians lost only half so much , and then the account stands thus : In this war ...
... judge that the country which was the seat of the war must have been an equal sufferer . But I am content to detract from this , and to suppose that the Indians lost only half so much , and then the account stands thus : In this war ...
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... judge that their intestine divisions , and their foreign wars , consumed less than three millions of their inhabitants . What an Aceldama , what a field of blood , Sicily has been in ancient times , whilst the mode of its government was ...
... judge that their intestine divisions , and their foreign wars , consumed less than three millions of their inhabitants . What an Aceldama , what a field of blood , Sicily has been in ancient times , whilst the mode of its government was ...
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... judge of countries more extended , and which have waged wars by far more considerable ? Instances of this sort compose the uniform of history . But there have been periods when no less than universal destruction to the race of mankind ...
... judge of countries more extended , and which have waged wars by far more considerable ? Instances of this sort compose the uniform of history . But there have been periods when no less than universal destruction to the race of mankind ...
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... judge by the example of those animals , who still follow her laws , and even of those to whom she has given dispositions more fierce , and arms more terrible , than ever she intended we should use . It is an incontestable truth , that ...
... judge by the example of those animals , who still follow her laws , and even of those to whom she has given dispositions more fierce , and arms more terrible , than ever she intended we should use . It is an incontestable truth , that ...
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... judge , and we cannot otherwise judge , of the several artificial modes of religion and society , and determine of them as they approach to , or recede from , this standard . The simplest form of government is despotism , where all the ...
... judge , and we cannot otherwise judge , of the several artificial modes of religion and society , and determine of them as they approach to , or recede from , this standard . The simplest form of government is despotism , where all the ...
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