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... Parties in religion and politics make suffi- cient discoveries concerning each other , to give a sober man a proper caution against them all . The monarchic , and aristocratical , and popular partisans have been jointly lay- ing their ...
... Parties in religion and politics make suffi- cient discoveries concerning each other , to give a sober man a proper caution against them all . The monarchic , and aristocratical , and popular partisans have been jointly lay- ing their ...
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... party . It is of no con- sequence what the principles of any party , or what their pre- tensions , are ; the spirit which actuates all parties is the same ; the spirit of ambition , of self - interest , of oppression , and treachery ...
... party . It is of no con- sequence what the principles of any party , or what their pre- tensions , are ; the spirit which actuates all parties is the same ; the spirit of ambition , of self - interest , of oppression , and treachery ...
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... party even in our own nation . I could show , that the same faction has , in one reign , pro- moted popular seditions , and , in the next , been a patron of tyranny ; I could show , that they have all of them betrayed the public safety ...
... party even in our own nation . I could show , that the same faction has , in one reign , pro- moted popular seditions , and , in the next , been a patron of tyranny ; I could show , that they have all of them betrayed the public safety ...
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... parties felt themselves more effectually ruined by the delay than they could have been by the injustice of any decision . Our inheritances are become a prize for disputation ; and disputes and litigations are become an inheritance . The ...
... parties felt themselves more effectually ruined by the delay than they could have been by the injustice of any decision . Our inheritances are become a prize for disputation ; and disputes and litigations are become an inheritance . The ...
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... PARTY divisions , whether on the whole operating for good or evil , are things inseparable from free government . This is a truth which , I believe , admits little dispute , having been established by the uniform experience of all ages ...
... PARTY divisions , whether on the whole operating for good or evil , are things inseparable from free government . This is a truth which , I believe , admits little dispute , having been established by the uniform experience of all ages ...
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