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But behind this question, so trifling to the apologists of prerogative, as behind that of ship-money, stood loftily the same great cause.
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Sumner reiterates that significant causes often stand behind questions dismissed as trivial.
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Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
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