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...relations of social, civil, and political life, in the spirit of the Hebrew prophets, in whose writings Is plainest taught, and easiest learnt, What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so. According to his views of political economy, it was of little consequence whether the wealth of a community...

...relations of social, civil, and political life, in the spirit of the Hebrew prophets, in whose writings In plainest taught, and easiest learnt, What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so. According to his views of political economy, it was of little consequence whether the wealth of a community...

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...In their majestic, unaffected style, Thau all the oratory of Greece and Rome. In them is ¡daines! taught, and easiest learnt. What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so !" After the death of Straflbrd, public affairs advanced to a crisis rapidly. The gradual disclosures...

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...of eloquence; statists indeed, And lovers of their country, as may seem; But herein to our prophets far beneath, As men divinely taught, and better teaching...and Rome. In them is plainest taught, and easiest learn'd, What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so; PARADISE REGAINED. What ruins kingdoms, and lays...

...their young friend and kinsman was a welcome and an attentive listener to those high themes, teaching " What makes a nation happy and keeps it so, What ruins kingdoms and lays cities flat." We may well conceive how his bosom dilated, and his eye kindled with unwonted fire, as they narrated...

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