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It is the powerlessness of force to found anything . There are only two powers in the world - the sabre and the mind , and in the end the former is always the sabre par excellence . That great man did not conquered by the latter .
It is the powerlessness of force to found anything . There are only two powers in the world - the sabre and the mind , and in the end the former is always the sabre par excellence . That great man did not conquered by the latter .
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Nearly one half had been so closely blockaded for many months as to have lost practice and seamanship ; the force would be unfit to manœuvre in the limited space assigned , and their inability to work their ships with all the dexterity ...
Nearly one half had been so closely blockaded for many months as to have lost practice and seamanship ; the force would be unfit to manœuvre in the limited space assigned , and their inability to work their ships with all the dexterity ...
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Even if all the forces we haps we have made too much of him , but there have supposed able to supplant diffusion were ... and not one breath of wind stirred the still air , yet this silent and resistless force would lift up as on wings ...
Even if all the forces we haps we have made too much of him , but there have supposed able to supplant diffusion were ... and not one breath of wind stirred the still air , yet this silent and resistless force would lift up as on wings ...
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The Cholera | 8 |
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