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«This is emphatically an age of discoveries; but I will venture the assertion, that none but an American slaveholder could have discovered that a man born in a country was not a citizen of it.»
Author: William Winters
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
An Age, Citizen of, discoveries, emphatically, slaveholder, slaveholders
«The history of England is emphatically the history of progress.»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
| Keywords:
emphatically, England, The History, The History of
«Every politician is emphatically a promising politician.»
«Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a ''taxing-machine';' to the contented, a ''machine for securing property'.' Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
active, appetite, balancing, constable, constables, contented, discontented, duties, emphatically, guided, keen, machine, No Quarter, parish, Parties, party man, quarter, securing, self government, self interest, taxing
«Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
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Hope
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emphatically, properly, properly speaking
«Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.»
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