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The same idea, tracing the arguments to their consequences, is held out in several of the late publications against the new Constitution.
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Aspasia, vide Plutarch’s Life of Pericles.
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Ibid.
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Ibid. Phidias was supposed to have stolen some public gold, with the connivance of Pericles, for the embellishment of the statue of Minerva.
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Ibid.
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Worn by the popes.
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Madame de Maintenon.
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Duchess of Marlborough.
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Madame de Pompadour.
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The League of Cambray, comprehending the Emperor, the King of France, the King of Aragon, and most of the Italian princes and states.
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The Duke of Marlborough.
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Vide Principes des Négociations par l’Abbé de Mably.
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Divide and command.
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In order that the whole subject of these papers may as soon as possible be laid before the public, it is proposed to publish them four times a week—on Tuesday in the New York Packe…
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This objection will be fully examined in its proper place, and it will be shown that the only natural precaution which could have been taken on this subject has been taken; and a m…
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Spirit of Laws, vol. i., book ix., chap. i.
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“Recherches philosophiques sur les Américains.”
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If my memory be right they amount to twenty per cent.
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“I mean for the Union.”
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This was but another name more specious for the independence of the members on the federal head.
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Pfeffel, “Nouvel Abrég. Chronol. de l’Hist., etc., d’Allemagne,” says the pretext was to indemnify himself for the expense of the expedition.
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This, as nearly as I can recollect, was the sense of his speech on introducing the last bill.
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Encyclopedia, article “Empire.”
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New Hampshire, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware, Georgia, South Carolina, and Maryland are a majority of the whole number of the States, but they do not contain one third of the …
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