Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, Volume 99Pub. for J. Hinton., 1796 |
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... against those varieties of weather to which we are expofed in this country . Perhaps I may be partial to it , but befide think- ing that a man who has such a taste may defy all weathers , I queftion very much whether the many fudden ...
... against those varieties of weather to which we are expofed in this country . Perhaps I may be partial to it , but befide think- ing that a man who has such a taste may defy all weathers , I queftion very much whether the many fudden ...
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* Mr. Gibbon too lightly adopts the calumny which was propogated against this great and good man , by the bigots of the laft century , of his having fubfided into that philofophic indifference , which , it is probable , was not fo ...
* Mr. Gibbon too lightly adopts the calumny which was propogated against this great and good man , by the bigots of the laft century , of his having fubfided into that philofophic indifference , which , it is probable , was not fo ...
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... against ano- ther , for not viewing every dark paf- fage in the writings of their prophet , exactly in the fame light ! How differ- ent is the cafe with the Chriftian ! The great founder of their religion having left every man at ...
... against ano- ther , for not viewing every dark paf- fage in the writings of their prophet , exactly in the fame light ! How differ- ent is the cafe with the Chriftian ! The great founder of their religion having left every man at ...
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... against the archduke's left , and to cut off his royal highness ' communication with the prince of Condé's army and the corps of Auftrians that was ftationed in the Brifgaw , under the command of general Frolich , at the fame time that ...
... against the archduke's left , and to cut off his royal highness ' communication with the prince of Condé's army and the corps of Auftrians that was ftationed in the Brifgaw , under the command of general Frolich , at the fame time that ...
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... against Daniel aac Eaton , for publishing a fcandalous and malicious libel , called the Political Dic- tionary , in which certain explanations were given for certain words , and , among others , a Crown was defined to be a bau- ble ...
... against Daniel aac Eaton , for publishing a fcandalous and malicious libel , called the Political Dic- tionary , in which certain explanations were given for certain words , and , among others , a Crown was defined to be a bau- ble ...
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Page 78 - Why should that name be sounded more than yours ? Write them together, yours is as fair a name; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well; Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em, Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Page 80 - How that might change his nature, there's the question: It is the bright day that brings forth the adder; And that craves wary walking. Crown him? — that? And then, I grant, we put a sting in him, That at his will he may do danger with.
Page 352 - Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct: and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
Page 352 - ... magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that in the course of time and things the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it? Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?
Page 85 - He only, in a general honest thought And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Page 349 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
Page 78 - Many a time and oft Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops. Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The live-long day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome...
Page 352 - Nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest, in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter, without adequate inducement or justification.
Page 32 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter', that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Page 354 - The inducements of interest for observing that conduct will best be referred to your own reflections and experience. With me, a. predominant motive has been to endeavour to gain time to our country to settle and mature its yet recent institutions, and to progress, without interruption, to that degree of strength and consistency, which is necessary to give it, humanly speaking, the command of its own fortunes.