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...refinements, and its elegancies, — the product not of centuries, but of the life of man. We are told, that ' A thousand years scarce serve to form a state, An hour may lay it in the dust.' The reverse seems almost true. While we contemplate in Europe the fate of kingdoms, that have been...

...refinements, and its elegancies, — the product not of centuries, but of the life of man. We are told, that ' A thousand years scarce serve to form a state, An hour may lay it in the dost.' The reverse seems almost true. While we contemplate in Europe the fate of kingdoms, that have...

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...affairs of this country. It is well said, by the most poetical geois, perhaps, of our own times— "A thousand years scarce serve to form a state. An hour may lay it in the dust"— This is the feeling which has regulated—which will continue to regulate—my conduct. It was by a...

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