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... queen's ac- ceffion to the throne , to the peace of Utrecht , there will be no materials that I fhall ex- amine more scrupulously and severely , than those of the time when the events to be spoken of were in tranfaction . But tho the ...
... queen's ac- ceffion to the throne , to the peace of Utrecht , there will be no materials that I fhall ex- amine more scrupulously and severely , than those of the time when the events to be spoken of were in tranfaction . But tho the ...
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... queen ELIZABETH , and the acceffion of king JAMES the first , made a vaft alteration in the government of our nation at home , and in her con- duct abroad , about the end of the first of these periods . The wars that religion occafioned ...
... queen ELIZABETH , and the acceffion of king JAMES the first , made a vaft alteration in the government of our nation at home , and in her con- duct abroad , about the end of the first of these periods . The wars that religion occafioned ...
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... queen by the death of her fa- ther FHILIP the fourth , he pulled off the mask entirely . Volumes were writ to es- tablish , and to refute this fuppofed right . Your lordship no doubt will look into a controverfy that has employed fo ...
... queen by the death of her fa- ther FHILIP the fourth , he pulled off the mask entirely . Volumes were writ to es- tablish , and to refute this fuppofed right . Your lordship no doubt will look into a controverfy that has employed fo ...
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... queen , who had com- plaints of the fame kind , in a much higher degree and with circumftances much more aggravating , to make of them , of the emperor , and of all the princes of Germany ; and who was far from treat- ing them and their ...
... queen , who had com- plaints of the fame kind , in a much higher degree and with circumftances much more aggravating , to make of them , of the emperor , and of all the princes of Germany ; and who was far from treat- ing them and their ...
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... queen's endeavours to be got with child had proved ineffectual . The league diffolved , all the forces of the confederates difperfed , and many disbanded ; France continuing armed , her forces by fea and land increased and held in ...
... queen's endeavours to be got with child had proved ineffectual . The league diffolved , all the forces of the confederates difperfed , and many disbanded ; France continuing armed , her forces by fea and land increased and held in ...
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Page 61 - ... disastrous campaigns, we saw every scene of the war full of action. All those wherein he appeared, and many of those wherein he was not then an actor — but abettor, however, of their action — were crowned with the most triumphant success. I take with pleasure this opportunity of doing justice to that great man, whose faults I knew, whose virtues I admired, and whose memory, as the greatest general and as the greatest minister that our country or perhaps any other has produced, I honour.
Page 17 - The reason of this judgment, which I quote from one of Seneca's epistles in confirmation of my own opinion, rests, I think, on this; that when examples are pointed out to us...
Page 29 - There is scarce any folly or vice more epidemical among the sons of men, than that ridiculous and hurtful vanity by which the people of each country are apt to prefer themselves to those of every other; and to make their own customs, and manners, and opinions, the standards of right and wrong, of true and false.
Page 198 - I may say so, of undefiled reason ? Is it not worth our while to approve or condemn, on our own authority, what we receive in the beginning of life on the authority of other men, who were not then better able to judge for us, than we are now to judge for ourselves?
Page 143 - Bodin's pupil, resolves to read all, will not have time, no nor capacity neither, to do any thing else. He will not be able to think, without which it is impertinent to read; nor to act, without which it is impertinent to think. He will assemble materials with much pains, and purchase them at much expense.
Page 186 - Till this happen, the profession of the law will scarce deserve to be ranked among the learned professions ; and whenever it happens, one of the vantage grounds, to which men must climb, is metaphysical, and the other historical knowledge.
Page 12 - There is no need of saying how this passion grows, among civilized nations, in proportion to the means of gratifying it : but let us observe that the same principle of nature directs us as strongly, and more generally as well as more early, to indulge our own curiosity, instead of preparing to gratify that of others.
Page 247 - There is no part of the world from whence we may not admire those planets which roll like ours, in different orbits, round the same central sun; from whence we may not discover an object still more stupendous, that army of fixed stars hung up in the immense space of the universe; innumerable suns, whose beams enlighten and cherish the unknown worlds which roll...
Page 185 - I might instance in other professions the obligation men lie under of applying themselves to certain parts of History; and I can hardly forbear doing it in that of the Law, — in its nature the noblest and most beneficial to mankind, in its abuse and debasement the most sordid and the most pernicious. A lawyer now is nothing more (I speak of ninetynine in a hundred at least...
Page 48 - ... of those who govern or are governed in them, will incline to think, that if the scales can be brought back by a war, nearly, though not exactly, to the point they were at before this...