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“Dominion by land or sea will appear equally destitute of attraction, when it comes to be generally understood, that all its advantages rest with the rulers, and that the subjects at large derive no benefit whatever.”

Sea Land Subjects Benefits Understood Advantage Attraction Rulers Dominion Destitute

Book:History of Economic Theory: The Selected Writings of Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, and J.R. McCulloch

Source: History of Economic Theory: The Selected Writings of Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, and J.R. McCulloch

“We hail the return of the day of thy birth, Fair Columbia! washed by the waves of two oceans Where men from the farthest dominions of earth Rear altars to Freedom, and pay their devotions; Where our fathers in fight, nobly strove for the Right, Struck down their fierce foemen or put them to flight; Through the long lapse of ages, that so there might be An asylum for all in the Land of the Free.”

Source: The microcosm, and other poems

“Jesus has redeemed not only our souls, but our bodies. When the Lord shall deliver His captive people out of the land of the enemy He will not leave a bone of one of them in the adversary's power. The dominion of death shall be utterly broken.”

People Soul Body Jesus Lord Enemy Land Broken Bones Easter Adversaries Dominion Captives Redeemed

Book:Sermons on the Last Days

Source: Sermons on the Last Days

“Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.”

Thinking Knows Men Causes Wise Seeing Sky Land Divinity Mortality Know Me Dominion

Book:Lucretius: Of the Nature of Things

Source: Lucretius: Of the Nature of Things

“The land was then covered with morasses and forests, which spread to a boundless extent, whenever man has ceased to exercise his dominion over the earth.”

Men Earth Land Exercise Spread Forests Covered Dominion Boundless

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire