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Grosset & Dunlap, 1926 - 500 pages
 

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Page 395 - There Is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight : there Is such a ih ins as a nation being so right that It does not need to convince others by force that It Is right. An expectant public seized upon the phrase "too proud to fight...
Page 267 - State to make him a citizen of it ; but it is only necessary that he should be born or naturalized in the United States to be a citizen of the Union. It is quite clear, then, that there is a citizenship of the United States and a citizenship of a State, which are distinct from each other, and which depend upon different characteristics or circumstances in the individual.
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Page 363 - Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day — Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Page 393 - Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.
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