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... habits , it is certain to be in the opposite course of deterioration . There is no standing still on so fearful a declivity . Unless progressive emancipation be the object kept in view , and known to be in view , sus- picion , and its ...
... habits , it is certain to be in the opposite course of deterioration . There is no standing still on so fearful a declivity . Unless progressive emancipation be the object kept in view , and known to be in view , sus- picion , and its ...
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... habits of city life increased , chiefly for their pecuniary value . So much the better for those few who could emancipate themselves , by pecuniary sacrifices . which the lords were generally ready to accept . But so much the worse for ...
... habits of city life increased , chiefly for their pecuniary value . So much the better for those few who could emancipate themselves , by pecuniary sacrifices . which the lords were generally ready to accept . But so much the worse for ...
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Herman Merivale. 6 Few are aware , because it is a subject on which habit dulls perception , of the extent to which these encroach- ments go . The Church of Rome , for instance , makes clerical celibacy a rule of discipline . That she ...
Herman Merivale. 6 Few are aware , because it is a subject on which habit dulls perception , of the extent to which these encroach- ments go . The Church of Rome , for instance , makes clerical celibacy a rule of discipline . That she ...
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... habit , founded on her esti- mate of the best means of dealing with mankind . Ab- solute justice , ' she says in one of her letters ( quoted by Senac de Meillan ) is not justice ; and lenity alone is adapted to human weakness . ' It was ...
... habit , founded on her esti- mate of the best means of dealing with mankind . Ab- solute justice , ' she says in one of her letters ( quoted by Senac de Meillan ) is not justice ; and lenity alone is adapted to human weakness . ' It was ...
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... habits of the resi- dence at Czarsko Selo , in 1774 : People appear there without swords or ribands ! The empress goes into her cabinet , and comes out again , unnoticed ; and it is not the custom for any of her attendants to appear as ...
... habits of the resi- dence at Czarsko Selo , in 1774 : People appear there without swords or ribands ! The empress goes into her cabinet , and comes out again , unnoticed ; and it is not the custom for any of her attendants to appear as ...
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