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... feeling em- braced in a constituency so large as one of those to which three members were proposed to be given , would be very inadequately expressed by any three repre- sentatives . Many minorities , dissenting on principles of gravity ...
... feeling em- braced in a constituency so large as one of those to which three members were proposed to be given , would be very inadequately expressed by any three repre- sentatives . Many minorities , dissenting on principles of gravity ...
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... feeling , -har- mony of taste , -may all form so many occasions of concord , and create innumerable circles , binding to- gether in society all varieties of rank and station , with an attraction of such power that malignant in- fluences ...
... feeling , -har- mony of taste , -may all form so many occasions of concord , and create innumerable circles , binding to- gether in society all varieties of rank and station , with an attraction of such power that malignant in- fluences ...
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... feelings could hardly enter . A corresponding provision should be made for re- lieving any constituency , local or corporate , of the necessity of making a separate return , —and thereby exonerating them from the additional charges ...
... feelings could hardly enter . A corresponding provision should be made for re- lieving any constituency , local or corporate , of the necessity of making a separate return , —and thereby exonerating them from the additional charges ...
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... feelings by which men were formerly attached , or were supposed to be attached to their country , to their native or ... feeling is not extinct . The man , whose virtue or whose genius has conferred honour upon his country and his age ...
... feelings by which men were formerly attached , or were supposed to be attached to their country , to their native or ... feeling is not extinct . The man , whose virtue or whose genius has conferred honour upon his country and his age ...
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Thomas Hare. from the Legislature , the representation of the opinions , feelings , or desires , of the less numerous of these two great divisions . It destroys the minorities , and in so doing seriously weakens and deteriorates the ...
Thomas Hare. from the Legislature , the representation of the opinions , feelings , or desires , of the less numerous of these two great divisions . It destroys the minorities , and in so doing seriously weakens and deteriorates the ...
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