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...le is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her ow... ...s any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. An Essay Concerning Hum... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ...bly our thoughts and notions had not exceeded those brutish ones of the Hottentots that inhabit there. And had the Virginia king Apochancana been educ... ...idu- als have distinct denominations. 5. What things have proper names, and why. Besides persons, countries also, cities, rivers, mountains, and othe...

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...nment, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in its consequences nothing less than the existence of the union, the safety and welfare of the parts of which it is composed, the fate of an empire in many respects the most interesting in the world. It has been frequently r...

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............................................................... 6 BOOK I THE EARLY YOUTH OF HENRY ESMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRINITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE.....................................................................................11 CHAPTER I AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF ESMOND OF CASTLEWOOD HALL ..................................... 14 CHAPTER II RELATES H...

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...eads without bursting. The fear has not been realized, that the only two first-rate Powers who are also free nations would take to tearing each other in pieces, both the one and the other in a bad and odious cause. For while, on the American side, the war would have been one of reckless persistency in wrong, on ours it would have been a war in alliance with, and, to practi...

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