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Of this description are the love of power or the desire of preeminence and dominion - the jealousy of power , or the desire of equality and safety . There are others which have a more circumscribed though an equally operative influence ...
Of this description are the love of power or the desire of preeminence and dominion - the jealousy of power , or the desire of equality and safety . There are others which have a more circumscribed though an equally operative influence ...
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a a world , too decided and too humiliating to be endured without extreme impatience , and an eager desire of finding a favorable opportunity to destroy it , and to repair the breach which had been made in the national glory .
a a world , too decided and too humiliating to be endured without extreme impatience , and an eager desire of finding a favorable opportunity to destroy it , and to repair the breach which had been made in the national glory .
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It is with still deeper concern the President regards the avowal of Lord Aberdeen of the desire of Great Britain to see slavery abolished in Texas ; and , as he infers , is endeavoring , through her diplomacy , to accomplish it ...
It is with still deeper concern the President regards the avowal of Lord Aberdeen of the desire of Great Britain to see slavery abolished in Texas ; and , as he infers , is endeavoring , through her diplomacy , to accomplish it ...
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EVOLUTION OF THE NATIONAL INTEREST | 3 |
can Continent 1760 | 18 |
The French Interest in American Independence 1778 | 27 |
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