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In the case put by Mr M'Culloch , the personalty of £ 50,000 obviously owes its existence to the mortgage debt ; and it is , therefore , fairly applied to the discharge of that debt . But , cessante ratione , cessat etiam lex ...
In the case put by Mr M'Culloch , the personalty of £ 50,000 obviously owes its existence to the mortgage debt ; and it is , therefore , fairly applied to the discharge of that debt . But , cessante ratione , cessat etiam lex ...
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... and prevent sectional jealousies , which divide and balance power , and satisfy small ambition , these are the helps , without which our national existence could not have been prolonged beyond the lifetime of Washington himself .
... and prevent sectional jealousies , which divide and balance power , and satisfy small ambition , these are the helps , without which our national existence could not have been prolonged beyond the lifetime of Washington himself .
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The study of history carries us , at once , beyond the narrow limits of threescore years and ten , which is the age of our national existence , and as soon as we pass that boundary we too are Britons . The blood of our forefathers ran ...
The study of history carries us , at once , beyond the narrow limits of threescore years and ten , which is the age of our national existence , and as soon as we pass that boundary we too are Britons . The blood of our forefathers ran ...
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Here , indeed , was one of those books which embrace an existence ; like the Dictionary of Bayle , or the History of Gibbon , or the Fasti Hellenici of Clinton , -it was a book to which thousands of books had contributed , only to make ...
Here , indeed , was one of those books which embrace an existence ; like the Dictionary of Bayle , or the History of Gibbon , or the Fasti Hellenici of Clinton , -it was a book to which thousands of books had contributed , only to make ...
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There exists an old prophecy in France , emanating from a monk of the middle ages , the authenticity of which cannot be doubted , or , at all events , cannot be disputed , in as far as it was in wellknown existence at the commencement ...
There exists an old prophecy in France , emanating from a monk of the middle ages , the authenticity of which cannot be doubted , or , at all events , cannot be disputed , in as far as it was in wellknown existence at the commencement ...
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