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... carry our view back to the controversies of the last generation ; the personalities of fifty or sixty years ago are reduced before our eyes into their real pettiness . The first Reform Bill still retains its importance for as a measure ...
... carry our view back to the controversies of the last generation ; the personalities of fifty or sixty years ago are reduced before our eyes into their real pettiness . The first Reform Bill still retains its importance for as a measure ...
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... carried the Union , and the broken pledges which turned political union into a source of fresh sectarian discord ; the calamities , the mistakes and the crimes which mark each scene in the tragedy of Irish history , afford to ...
... carried the Union , and the broken pledges which turned political union into a source of fresh sectarian discord ; the calamities , the mistakes and the crimes which mark each scene in the tragedy of Irish history , afford to ...
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... were needed ) to establish the truth of this assertion . The rhetorical emphasis laid by Home Rulers on the baseness of the arts which carried the Act of Union is , as an argument in CHAP . III . ] Strength of the Home Rule Movement . 39.
... were needed ) to establish the truth of this assertion . The rhetorical emphasis laid by Home Rulers on the baseness of the arts which carried the Act of Union is , as an argument in CHAP . III . ] Strength of the Home Rule Movement . 39.
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... carried by corruption , is in the eye of reason as absurd as to question the title of modern French landowners because of the horrors of the Reign of Terror . Even a Legitimist would not now base a moral claim to an estate on the ground ...
... carried by corruption , is in the eye of reason as absurd as to question the title of modern French landowners because of the horrors of the Reign of Terror . Even a Legitimist would not now base a moral claim to an estate on the ground ...
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... carried away thousands who could not have logi- cally defended the impulse which governed their acts . But in these , as in other cases in which humanity has been carried forward along the path of progress by the force of emotion , the ...
... carried away thousands who could not have logi- cally defended the impulse which governed their acts . But in these , as in other cases in which humanity has been carried forward along the path of progress by the force of emotion , the ...
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