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... doubt the supply keeping pace with it . It was in our power , then , peacefully , yet effectually , to have demonstrated the hopeless- ness of such rivalry , and probably , by so doing , to have strangled in its cradle the steam force ...
... doubt the supply keeping pace with it . It was in our power , then , peacefully , yet effectually , to have demonstrated the hopeless- ness of such rivalry , and probably , by so doing , to have strangled in its cradle the steam force ...
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... doubt often does greatly exaggerate a people's belief in their own prowess , but , con- sidered abstractedly , it is at least as probable that a country which for ages has been success- ful against every rival should be over - confident ...
... doubt often does greatly exaggerate a people's belief in their own prowess , but , con- sidered abstractedly , it is at least as probable that a country which for ages has been success- ful against every rival should be over - confident ...
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... doubt that our national self - love will sufficiently portray our strength and power , let us take counsel of our enemies as to our weakness , and their hopes of success ; for it is certain they have more attentively considered the ...
... doubt that our national self - love will sufficiently portray our strength and power , let us take counsel of our enemies as to our weakness , and their hopes of success ; for it is certain they have more attentively considered the ...
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... doubt , have attended the unprincipled avowal . Yet not unprincipled in him , for it squares perfectly with the political views put forth in his history - history in the sense which Charles V. attached to the word ? Nor was Spain the ...
... doubt , have attended the unprincipled avowal . Yet not unprincipled in him , for it squares perfectly with the political views put forth in his history - history in the sense which Charles V. attached to the word ? Nor was Spain the ...
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... doubt whether any government could resist the war - cry , which would resound through France . Causes of offence will not be wanting where the desire to quarrel exists ; and knowing as we do the readiness of French officers to ima- gine ...
... doubt whether any government could resist the war - cry , which would resound through France . Causes of offence will not be wanting where the desire to quarrel exists ; and knowing as we do the readiness of French officers to ima- gine ...
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