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... tion , of which ultima ratio populi , even our own times have furnished instances at St. Petersburg and Constantinople . Few modern despots can calculate on being so fortunate as the Turk Mustapha , who having rebelled against his ...
... tion , of which ultima ratio populi , even our own times have furnished instances at St. Petersburg and Constantinople . Few modern despots can calculate on being so fortunate as the Turk Mustapha , who having rebelled against his ...
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... tion of a good seat for the comfort of a safe one ; an ambling nag has always been an equestrian beatitude . Such was the feeling of the Sexagenarian , who took his horse to the ménage , that it might be taught the " old gentleman's ...
... tion of a good seat for the comfort of a safe one ; an ambling nag has always been an equestrian beatitude . Such was the feeling of the Sexagenarian , who took his horse to the ménage , that it might be taught the " old gentleman's ...
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... tion , by making us cautious of calling it forth , and restrains more effectually by the fear of its ebullitions , than it could by their actual outbreakings ; while it still retains a positive in- fluence when aroused . Anger , in ...
... tion , by making us cautious of calling it forth , and restrains more effectually by the fear of its ebullitions , than it could by their actual outbreakings ; while it still retains a positive in- fluence when aroused . Anger , in ...
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... tion except upon the most enormous interest . His very self- denial is selfish , for the odds are incalculably in favor of the man who bets body against soul . They who imperiously imagine that the happiness of the Creator consists in ...
... tion except upon the most enormous interest . His very self- denial is selfish , for the odds are incalculably in favor of the man who bets body against soul . They who imperiously imagine that the happiness of the Creator consists in ...
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... tion with a very considerable degree of suspicion ; and look upon every compliment which is paid to the ape as high treason to the dignity of man . But I confess I feel myself so much at my ease about the superiority of mankind , —I ...
... tion with a very considerable degree of suspicion ; and look upon every compliment which is paid to the ape as high treason to the dignity of man . But I confess I feel myself so much at my ease about the superiority of mankind , —I ...
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