Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.
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She the Roman Catholic Church may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
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What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in ours as a companion To receive from his contemporaries that full homage which men of genius have in general received only from posterity to be more intimately known to posterity than other men are known to their contemporaries.
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The chief-justice was rich, quiet, and infamous.
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