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- It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.
- The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for…
- The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it - The Territory is worth. Empires which branch out widely are often more flourishing…
- Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and…
- A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or…
- What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man!-To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in ours as a…
- The Life of Johnson is assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets. Shakespeare is not…
- We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions. But the more violent the outrages, the more assured we feel that a revolution was necessary.
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