I know not on what principle it originates; whether from an idea that I had voluntarily abandoned my Citizenship of America for that of France, or from any article of the American Constitution applied to me.
Or by what principle are we to find out the point to stop at, that shall discriminate between men of the same country, part of whom shall be free, and the rest not?
Have you forgot that 'twas I who tried to effect his captivation at Middlebrook?
So the citizens stood on the corners talking to each other almost in whispers of what was going on at the tavern.
On what principle, and under what direction, have results so various taken place in vesicles of the same rock, that in many instances occur scarce half an inch apart?
It still remains for the geologic chemist to discover on what principle masses of animal matter should form the attracting nuclei of limestone nodules.
On what principle, then, is it that, reversing its ordinary character, it should have been the last of the two substances to consolidate in the graphic granite?
Now, we would ask on what principle of republicanism, justice, or common humanity, a minority of the people of this Republic have monopolized to themselves all the rights of the whole?
On what principle is proscription on account of color more cruel than on account of sex?
We do not see by what principle of right the angelic creatures should claim to compete with the preacher, and refuse to enter the lists with the merchant.
On what principle of republican government is one class of tax-payers thus defrauded of one of the most sacred rights of citizenship?
How, or on what principle, the Father was satisfied, I know not, and may never know.
In what light, or on what principle, shall we most correctly read the prophetic drama of creation?
If it is a question of precedence merely, on what principle of justice or courtesy should woman yield her right of enfranchisement to the negro?
I am not unconditionally loyal, until we know towhat principle we are to be loyal.
Woman now holds a vast amount of property in the country, and pays her full proportion of taxes, revenue included; on what principle, then, do you deny her representation?
On what principle, then, do you deny her representation?
It seems well, therefore, to try to see on what principle we are to make our assumptions.
Let us once more follow our guide, the man of science, and ask him on what principle he elected to believe that Nature was uniform, rather than that she was not.
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