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... first settlement of the country . The isolated settlements along the Atlantic coast could not ask the Indians , who outnumbered them ten to one , to accept the position of wards . No wise policy was adopted , with altered circumstances ...
... first settlement of the country . The isolated settlements along the Atlantic coast could not ask the Indians , who outnumbered them ten to one , to accept the position of wards . No wise policy was adopted , with altered circumstances ...
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... first be kindled , and can then only be kept alive by a power genuinely Christian . But it is idle to attempt to carry Christian influences to any one unless we are Christian . The first step , therefore , toward the de- sired ...
... first be kindled , and can then only be kept alive by a power genuinely Christian . But it is idle to attempt to carry Christian influences to any one unless we are Christian . The first step , therefore , toward the de- sired ...
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... first ought to be considered as predominant , since it as well as the ' jus civile ' was a positive law , the origin and development of which must be sought for in history . " Nations being simply , as Vattel defines them , " societies ...
... first ought to be considered as predominant , since it as well as the ' jus civile ' was a positive law , the origin and development of which must be sought for in history . " Nations being simply , as Vattel defines them , " societies ...
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... and all their rights would soon become useless . From the foregoing right arise , as two distinct branches , first , the right of a just defence , which be- longs to every nation , or the right of making INTRODUCTORY . 21.
... and all their rights would soon become useless . From the foregoing right arise , as two distinct branches , first , the right of a just defence , which be- longs to every nation , or the right of making INTRODUCTORY . 21.
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... first to cut short our nation's record of cruelties and perjuries ! the first to attempt to re- deem the name of the United States from the stain of a cen- tury of dishonor ! CHAPTER II . THE DELAWARES . WHEN Hendrik Hudson anchored ...
... first to cut short our nation's record of cruelties and perjuries ! the first to attempt to re- deem the name of the United States from the stain of a cen- tury of dishonor ! CHAPTER II . THE DELAWARES . WHEN Hendrik Hudson anchored ...
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