The Pamphleteer, Volume 5Abraham John Valpy A. J. Valpy., 1815 - Great Britain |
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... respecting the INSOLVENT DEBTORS ' BILL , with the opinions of Dr. PALEY , Mr. BURKE , and Dr. JOHNSON , upon Imprisonment for Debt . By BASIL MONTAGU , Esq . 487 ... 513 IX . A New Theory of the Two HEMISPHERES , whereby it is ...
... respecting the INSOLVENT DEBTORS ' BILL , with the opinions of Dr. PALEY , Mr. BURKE , and Dr. JOHNSON , upon Imprisonment for Debt . By BASIL MONTAGU , Esq . 487 ... 513 IX . A New Theory of the Two HEMISPHERES , whereby it is ...
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... , because the horrible excesses of the Triumvir were almost instantly obliterated by the paternal go . vernment of the Emperor . The English yet respect the memory of the tyrant Usurper William the Conqueror , because he 18.
... , because the horrible excesses of the Triumvir were almost instantly obliterated by the paternal go . vernment of the Emperor . The English yet respect the memory of the tyrant Usurper William the Conqueror , because he 18.
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... respect to the national spirit , France and England must be differently governed . England , entirely commercial , should be guided by calculation , and the love of enterprising adventure . France should be swayed by the love of her own ...
... respect to the national spirit , France and England must be differently governed . England , entirely commercial , should be guided by calculation , and the love of enterprising adventure . France should be swayed by the love of her own ...
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Abraham John Valpy. Such should be the character of national spirit with respect to France : an attachment to the collective landed property , to its integrity , its perfect adaptation , its political independence , involves a regard to ...
Abraham John Valpy. Such should be the character of national spirit with respect to France : an attachment to the collective landed property , to its integrity , its perfect adaptation , its political independence , involves a regard to ...
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... respect to the vows , taken by persons entering into religion , of obedience , poverty , chastity , and stability : II . Of the Eastern monks : III . Of the Western monks , or Benedictines ; of the congregations , which have diverged ...
... respect to the vows , taken by persons entering into religion , of obedience , poverty , chastity , and stability : II . Of the Eastern monks : III . Of the Western monks , or Benedictines ; of the congregations , which have diverged ...
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Page 96 - And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation ; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you ; as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
Page 545 - In a prison, the awe of the public eye is lost, and the power of the law is spent ; there are few fears, there are no blushes. The lewd inflame the lewd, the audacious harden the audacious. Every one fortifies himself as he can against his own sensibility, endeavours to practise on others the arts which are practised on himself ; and gains the kindness of his associates by similitude of manners.
Page 396 - The rites of hospitality being thus performed towards a stranger in distress; my worthy benefactress (pointing to the mat, and telling me I might sleep there without apprehension) called to the female part of her family...
Page 523 - They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with death; for they allege, that care and vigilance, with a very common understanding, may preserve a man's goods from thieves, but honesty hath no fence against superior cunning...
Page 536 - There are two capital faults in our law with relation to civil debts. One is, that every man is presumed solvent. A presumption, in innumerable cases, directly against truth. Therefore the debtor is ordered, on a supposition of ability and fraud, to be coerced his liberty until he makes payment.
Page 541 - ... the public stock. The confinement, therefore, of any man in the sloth and darkness of a prison, is a loss to the nation, and no gain to the creditor. For of the multitudes who are pining in those cells of misery, a very small part is suspected of any fraudulent act by which they retain what belongs to others.
Page 397 - The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk — no wife to grind his corn.
Page 352 - An account of the proceedings of the British and other Protestant inhabitants of the province of Quebeck, in North America, in order to obtain an House of Assembly in that province.
Page 538 - His plan is original ; and it is as full of genius as it is of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery ; a circumnavigation of charity. Already the benefit of his labour is felt more or less in every country; I hope he will anticipate his final reward, by seeing all its effects fully realized in his own. He will receive, not by...