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Success in this cause has been much beyond the means used , comparatively
greater than in any kindred enterprise . Few are fully aware how much has
already been gained . In little more than twenty years preceding the
commencement of ...
Success in this cause has been much beyond the means used , comparatively
greater than in any kindred enterprise . Few are fully aware how much has
already been gained . In little more than twenty years preceding the
commencement of ...
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... an expedient frequently tried of late , rarely without success , and sufficient , if
employed in season , to prevent more ... such a tribunal be an entirely new
experiment ; for its principle has been in occasional , successful operation for
ages .
... an expedient frequently tried of late , rarely without success , and sufficient , if
employed in season , to prevent more ... such a tribunal be an entirely new
experiment ; for its principle has been in occasional , successful operation for
ages .
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Greece ; it has been at work , with well - nigh complete success , in the
Confederacy of Switzerland , for more than five hundred years ; and , in less than
two centuries , there have been fifty congresses in Europe , all more or less on
the ...
Greece ; it has been at work , with well - nigh complete success , in the
Confederacy of Switzerland , for more than five hundred years ; and , in less than
two centuries , there have been fifty congresses in Europe , all more or less on
the ...
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chiefs of a state of warfare , and the little or no advantage obtained even by those
nations which have conducted it with the most success , I have been apt to think
there never has been , nor ever will be , any such thing as a good war , or a bad ...
chiefs of a state of warfare , and the little or no advantage obtained even by those
nations which have conducted it with the most success , I have been apt to think
there never has been , nor ever will be , any such thing as a good war , or a bad ...
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Should the pirate pray for success , would he not ask for the very same things ?
Let us learn the soldier ' s duties ( ! ) from Suwarrow ' s Catechism , a series of
directions by that great general to his soldiers . “ Push hard with the bayonet .
Should the pirate pray for success , would he not ask for the very same things ?
Let us learn the soldier ' s duties ( ! ) from Suwarrow ' s Catechism , a series of
directions by that great general to his soldiers . “ Push hard with the bayonet .
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