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 1    1|     which enervates and destroys nations? Are we sure that there
 2    1|        of abstract thought, that nations should seek to commemorate
 3    1|         see any hammering stone. Nations are possessed with an insane
 4    1|       The customs of some savage nations might, perchance, be profitably
 5    1|          pursuits of the simpler nations are still the sports of
 6    4| literature. But when the several nations of Europe had acquired distinct
 7    4|   inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the
 8    4|          known Scriptures of the nations, shall have still further
 9    5|        think of it! It would put nations on the alert. Who would
10    7|      interval. Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad
11    8|        the ashes of unchronicled nations who in primeval years lived
12   10|  well-like character. Successive nations perchance have drank at,
13   10|         in how many unremembered nations' literatures this has been
14   10|        water. It needs no fence. Nations come and go without defiling
15   12|       state; and there are whole nations in that condition, nations
16   12|       nations in that condition, nations without fancy or imagination,
17   15|        where philosophers of all nations might put up, and on his
18   19|    conform to the customs of all nations, if you would travel farther