Once he remarked, loud enough to be heard by the other members whom he set roaring with laughter, that he was not surprised that men who were about to vote away the liberties of a living people should take such liberties with a dead language.
Beveridge humorously comments on the absurdity of mispronouncing Latin while discussing serious political matters.
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Thus were the ideas of Nationality and localism in America brought into sharper conflict by the mob and guillotine in France.
Had not mobs been the precursors of our own Revolution?
She was able to maintain her independence & must deserve to lose it if she permitted it to be wrested from her.
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