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Below, was the broad, level plain of Esdraelon, checkered with fields like a chess-board, and full as smooth and level, seemingly; dotted about its borders with white, compact villages, and faintly penciled, far and near, with the curving lines of roads and trails.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Genetic Evidence Shows Common Origins of Jews 2010
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He does not consider that the pieces upon the chess-board have no other principle of motion besides that which the hand impresses upon them; but that, in the great chess-board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon it.
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He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Durbin Threatens Visa and Mastercard on Debit Interchange Fees: 2010
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The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board.
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He does not consider that the pieces upon the chess-board have no other principle of motion besides that which the hand impresses upon them; but that, in the great chess-board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon it.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Durbin Threatens Visa and Mastercard on Debit Interchange Fees: 2010
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He does not consider that the pieces upon the chess-board have no other principle of motion besides that which the hand impresses upon them; but that, in the great chess-board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon it.
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He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board.
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He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Durbin Threatens Visa and Mastercard on Debit Interchange Fees: 2010
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Below, was the broad, level plain of Esdraelon, checkered with fields like a chess-board, and full as smooth and level, seemingly; dotted about its borders with white, compact villages, and faintly penciled, far and near, with the curving lines of roads and trails.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Genetic Evidence Shows Common Origins of Jews 2010
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