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Finally some sanity .. elephants too was heading for extinction untill there where installed hunting regulations and gamewardens to actually protect them .. now they thrive in wellregulated populations ..
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Finally some sanity .. elephants too was heading for extinction untill there where installed hunting regulations and gamewardens to actually protect them .. now they thrive in wellregulated populations ..
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Bacon himself allowed the truth which might be found in a wellregulated astrology, making thus a distinction betwixt the art as commonly practised and the manner in which it might, as he conceived, be made a proper use of.
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The capricious operation of so dissimilar a method of trial in the same cases, under the same government, is of itself sufficient to indispose every wellregulated judgment towards it.
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Sparta was little better than a wellregulated camp; and Rome was never sated of carnage and conquest.
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Sparta was little better than a wellregulated camp; and Rome was never sated of carnage and conquest.
The Federalist Papers Alexander Hamilton 1780
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The capricious operation of so dissimilar a method of trial in the same cases, under the same government, is of itself sufficient to indispose every wellregulated judgment towards it.
The Federalist Papers Alexander Hamilton 1780
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