Six Characters in Search of a Republic: Studies in the Political Thought of the American ColoniesRevised version of Part II of [the author's] Seedtime of the Republic. |
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Page 174
... principles , pursue them logically till he found them leading to the precipice which he had to leap , start back alarmed , then resume his ground , go over it in another direction , be led again by the correctness of his reasoning to ...
... principles , pursue them logically till he found them leading to the precipice which he had to leap , start back alarmed , then resume his ground , go over it in another direction , be led again by the correctness of his reasoning to ...
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... principles to the test and finding new principles in the testing . We cannot estimate the vigor of his political faith unless we recall the variety of experi- ence on which it drew . In Pennsylvania he was clerk of the Assembly ( 1736 ...
... principles to the test and finding new principles in the testing . We cannot estimate the vigor of his political faith unless we recall the variety of experi- ence on which it drew . In Pennsylvania he was clerk of the Assembly ( 1736 ...
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... principle alone ; he preferred to condemn it for its harmful effects . In a characteristic pas- sage from the aptly ... Principles , nor would this Letter afford me Room , if I had Abilities , for such a Discussion . The Fact seems ...
... principle alone ; he preferred to condemn it for its harmful effects . In a characteristic pas- sage from the aptly ... Principles , nor would this Letter afford me Room , if I had Abilities , for such a Discussion . The Fact seems ...
Contents
Apostle of Soul Liberty | 35 |
A Star of the First Magnitude | 79 |
Herald of Revolution | 116 |
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