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Side 11
... . The youngest reader will know that the grandest forms in which the collective might of the human race has manifested itself , are the four monarchies . Four times have the distributive forces of nations THE CÆSARS . 11.
... . The youngest reader will know that the grandest forms in which the collective might of the human race has manifested itself , are the four monarchies . Four times have the distributive forces of nations THE CÆSARS . 11.
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... human race into one mould , and had brought them under the unity of a single will , entered by inheritance upon all that its predecessors in that career had appropriated , but in a condition of far ampler development . Estimated merely ...
... human race into one mould , and had brought them under the unity of a single will , entered by inheritance upon all that its predecessors in that career had appropriated , but in a condition of far ampler development . Estimated merely ...
Side 17
... human hands has either been extensive , but wanting in intensity or intense , but wanting in extent or , thirdly , liable to permanent control and hazard from some antagonist power com . mensurate with itself . But the Roman power , in ...
... human hands has either been extensive , but wanting in intensity or intense , but wanting in extent or , thirdly , liable to permanent control and hazard from some antagonist power com . mensurate with itself . But the Roman power , in ...
Side 18
... human control , occupies the next relation to superhuman modes of authority , must be invested by all minds alike with some dim and undefined relation to the sanctities of the next world . Thus , for instance , the Pope , as the father ...
... human control , occupies the next relation to superhuman modes of authority , must be invested by all minds alike with some dim and undefined relation to the sanctities of the next world . Thus , for instance , the Pope , as the father ...
Side 19
... human race ; who had it in his power to promote or to suspend the progress of human improvement ; and of whom , and the motions of whose will , the very prophets of Judea took cog- nizance . No nation , and no king , was utterly ...
... human race ; who had it in his power to promote or to suspend the progress of human improvement ; and of whom , and the motions of whose will , the very prophets of Judea took cog- nizance . No nation , and no king , was utterly ...
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