The North American Review, Volume 170, Issues 4-6O. Everett, 1900 |
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Page 449
... idea of war . Its massacres exasperate me and appear to me a useless atrocity . This may seem a sentimental view of the matter , one for which temperament and mental and physical habits are undoubtedly responsible , but it is also a ...
... idea of war . Its massacres exasperate me and appear to me a useless atrocity . This may seem a sentimental view of the matter , one for which temperament and mental and physical habits are undoubtedly responsible , but it is also a ...
Page 456
... idea of having no slaves for manual and agricultural labor , industrial and domestic work ; the thought of abolishing slavery and replacing it by something else , could not be entertained , and called forth the most vehement ...
... idea of having no slaves for manual and agricultural labor , industrial and domestic work ; the thought of abolishing slavery and replacing it by something else , could not be entertained , and called forth the most vehement ...
Page 460
... idea first of fighting Germany , then of beginning afresh the marvellous campaigns of Napoleon and starting out anew to attack Europe . In the first place , such a dream could never be realized ; and if it could , it would bring back ...
... idea first of fighting Germany , then of beginning afresh the marvellous campaigns of Napoleon and starting out anew to attack Europe . In the first place , such a dream could never be realized ; and if it could , it would bring back ...
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... idea of liberty : her part to - day would be to inflame it with a spirit of justice . I would have her take the lead in this great socialist movement , in the re- organization of labor , which , in my opinion , will be the great fea ...
... idea of liberty : her part to - day would be to inflame it with a spirit of justice . I would have her take the lead in this great socialist movement , in the re- organization of labor , which , in my opinion , will be the great fea ...
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... ideas of future con- quest . Until the present time , that country wisely occupied itself with its domestic affairs ... idea of mili- tary glory - notions so perilous as to have been responsible for the downfall of nations . And England ...
... ideas of future con- quest . Until the present time , that country wisely occupied itself with its domestic affairs ... idea of mili- tary glory - notions so perilous as to have been responsible for the downfall of nations . And England ...
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