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In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same.
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As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.
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Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special…
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Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.
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Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized.
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The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed…
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The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to…
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In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which…
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One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the…
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The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into…
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The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for…
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The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of…
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The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.
— Honore de Balzac
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I listen to money singing, it's like looking down from long French windows at a provincial town. The slums, the canal, the…
— Philip Larkin
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Unless the chemist learns the language of mathematics, he will become a provincial and the higher branches of chemical work, that require…
— Unknown Author
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Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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Follow your heart, whatever you do. You are placing your fate and our fate in the hands of men and women who…
— Thuli Madonsela
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Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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For over 20 years, the federal and provincial governments have made enormous efforts employing a variety of approaches in an attempt to…
— Kim Campbell
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The East is a montage. It is old and it is young, very green in summer, very white in winter, gregarious, withdrawn…
— Phyllis McGinley
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No patriotism is genuine that is merely partisan or provincial.
— William Rainey Harper
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In the last analysis, provincialism is your belief in yourself, in your neighborhood, in your reality. It is patriotism without belligerence. Convincing…
— Richard M. Weaver
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As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away…
— Julie Burchill
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We are very grateful for what the Ontario provincial government is doing, and for cooperation from provincial and local police forces all…
— Paul Cellucci
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