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" It is already able to oppose the most formidable obstruction to the progress of injustice and oppression ; and as it grows more intelligent and more intense, it will be more and more formidable. It may be silenced by military power, but it cannot be conquered.... "
The Quarterly Review - Pagina 45
geredigeerd door - 1841
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The Martyr of Erromanga: Or, The Philosophy of Missions, Illustrated from ...

John Campbell - 1842 - 512 pagina’s
...circumstances. But its empire has been exceedingly enlarged since the Reformation. " It is already able to oppose the most formidable obstruction to the progress...invulnerable to the weapons of ordinary warfare. It is that impassible, unextinguishable enemy of mere violence and arbitrary rule, which, like Milton's angels,...
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The New Englander, Volume 11

1853 - 666 pagina’s
...the public opinion of the civilized world is rapidly gaining an ascendency over mere brutal force. It may be silenced by military power, but it cannot...weapons of ordinary warfare. It is that impassable, inextinguishable enemy of mere violence and arbitrary rule, which, like Milton's angels, 'Vital in...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 11

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1858 - 666 pagina’s
...the public opinion of the civilized world is rapidly gaining an ascendency over mere brutal force. It may be silenced by military power, but it cannot...weapons of ordinary warfare. It is that impassable, inextinguishable enemy of mere violence and arbitrary rule, which, like Milton's angels, ' Vital in...
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The North American Review, Volume 59

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1844 - 548 pagina’s
...reliance on the triumph of right over might. " This public opinion of the civilized world," he says, " may be silenced by military power, but it cannot be...irrepressible, and invulnerable to the weapons of ordinary power. It follows the conqueror back to the very scene of his ovations ; it calls upon him to take...
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Essays and Reviews ...

Edwin Percy Whipple - 1848 - 372 pagina’s
...reliance on the triumph of right over might. " Thia public opinion of the civilized world," he says, " may be silenced by military power, but it cannot be...irrepressible, and invulnerable to the weapons of ordinary power. It follows the conqueror back to the very scene of his ovations ; it calls upon him to take...
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The Writings of Cassius Marcellus Clay: Including Speeches and Addresses

Cassius Marcellus Clay - 1848 - 550 pagina’s
...?" Daniel Webster, speaking of the freedom of opinion : " It may be silenced by military power, but cannot be conquered. It is elastic, irrepressible,...weapons of ordinary warfare. It is that impassable, inextinguishable enemy of mere violence and arbitrary rule, which, like Milton's angels, ' Vital in...
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Reminiscences of Congress

Charles Wainwright March - 1850 - 320 pagina’s
...the public opinion of the civilized world is rapidly gaining an ascendancy over mere brutal force. It may be silenced by military power, but it cannot...weapons of ordinary warfare. It is that impassable, inextinguishable enemy of mere violence and arbitrary rule, which, like Milton's angels, ' Vital in...
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Reminiscences of Congress

Charles Wainwright March - 1850 - 310 pagina’s
...the civilized world is rapidly gaining an ascendancy over mere brutal force. It may be si« lenced by military power, but it cannot be conquered. It...weapons of ordinary warfare. It is that impassable, inextinguishable enemy of mere violence and arbitrary rule, which, like Milton's angels, 1 Vital in...
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The Works of Daniel Webster: Speeches in the convention to amend the ...

Daniel Webster - 1851 - 572 pagina’s
...of the civilized world is rapidly gaining an ascendency over mere brutal force. It is already able to oppose the most formidable obstruction to the progress...invulnerable to the weapons of ordinary warfare. It is that impassible, unextjnguishable enemy of mere violence and arbitrary rule, which, like Milton's angels,...
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A Course of Reading for Common Schools and the Lower Classes of Academies ...

Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 396 pagina’s
...has come a great change in this respect. Moral causes come into consideration, in proportion as the 4 most formidable obstruction to the progress of injustice...oppression; and, as it grows more intelligent and more in3 progress of knowledge is advanced ; and the public opinion of the civilized world is rapidly gaining...
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