The Historical, biographical, literary, and scientific magazine, conducted by R. Bisset with the assistance of other literary gentlemen, Volume 2Robert Bisset 1800 |
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... British territories and councils , first the King of Sweden , then the Kings of Spain and France , made treaties with Oliver . It was obvious that he was so firmly esta- blished , that he had the power of performing any engagement which ...
... British territories and councils , first the King of Sweden , then the Kings of Spain and France , made treaties with Oliver . It was obvious that he was so firmly esta- blished , that he had the power of performing any engagement which ...
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... British Government nor Cromwell had manifested any disposition to fraternize other countries . Cromwell was suffi- cently imperious and ambitious , and was not scrupulous about seizing either territory or treasure wherever he could have ...
... British Government nor Cromwell had manifested any disposition to fraternize other countries . Cromwell was suffi- cently imperious and ambitious , and was not scrupulous about seizing either territory or treasure wherever he could have ...
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... British monarchy could not co - exist . Oliver Crom- well was not only firmly fixed in his seat , but shewed himself so able , so cautious , and considerate , as well as intrepid and decisive , that there was every probability of his ...
... British monarchy could not co - exist . Oliver Crom- well was not only firmly fixed in his seat , but shewed himself so able , so cautious , and considerate , as well as intrepid and decisive , that there was every probability of his ...
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... British isles , and the other middle coasts of Europe , made themselves easily masters of the eastern and northern parts of Ireland ; established new princi- palities , introduced new , though not more refined , arts and manners ...
... British isles , and the other middle coasts of Europe , made themselves easily masters of the eastern and northern parts of Ireland ; established new princi- palities , introduced new , though not more refined , arts and manners ...
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... British Legislature and Government . Swift's Irish prejudices made him an inveterate enemy to the Scots after the Union , even to such a degree that , in the ministry of Harley , he could scarcely suppress his animosity for the sake of ...
... British Legislature and Government . Swift's Irish prejudices made him an inveterate enemy to the Scots after the Union , even to such a degree that , in the ministry of Harley , he could scarcely suppress his animosity for the sake of ...
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Page 146 - There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny: the three-hooped pot; shall have ten hoops and I will make it felony to drink small beer...
Page 143 - Society requires not only that the passions of individuals should be subjected, but that even in the mass and body, as well as in the individuals, the inclinations of men should frequently be thwarted, their will controlled, and their passions brought into subjection.
Page 286 - I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation ; nor the musician's which is fantastical ; nor the courtier's, which is proud ; nor the soldier's, which is ambitious ; nor the lawyer's, which is politic ; nor the lady's, which is nice ; nor the lover's, which is all these : but it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and, indeed, the sundry contemplation of my travels, in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness.
Page 143 - Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.
Page 150 - Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar-school : and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used ; and, contrary to the king, his crown, and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill.
Page 240 - The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap, And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn...
Page 6 - The same system to the prevalence of which France justly ascribes all her present miseries, is that which has also involved the rest of Europe in a long and destructive warfare, of a nature long since unknown to the practice of civilized nations.
Page 10 - Majesty, if a sort of invitation were held out in favour of that Republican Government of which England adopted the forms in the middle of the last century, or an exhortation to recall to the throne that family whom their birth had placed there, and whom a revolution compelled to descend .from it.
Page 38 - Ay, i' the name of mischief, let him be the messenger. — For my part I wouldn't lend a hand to it for the best horse in your stable. By the mass ! it don't look like another letter ! It is, as I may say, a designing and malicious-looking letter ; and I warrant smells of gunpowder like a soldier's pouch ! — Oons ! I wouldn't swear it mayn't go off ! Acres. Out, you poltroon ! you han't the valour of a grasshopper. Dav. Well, I say no more — 'twill be sad news, to be sure, at Clod Hall ! but...
Page 143 - Every sort of legislative, judicial, or executory power are its creatures. They can have no being in any other state of things ; and how can any man claim, under the conventions of civil society, rights which do not so much as suppose its existence...