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... received or is likely to receive : I am sorry to fay it , but the man is as mad as a March hare . ' Scarcely had Agreftis left me , when Mr. Confol came up , and after a hearty shake of the hand , and a most fignificant and fly wink of ...
... received or is likely to receive : I am sorry to fay it , but the man is as mad as a March hare . ' Scarcely had Agreftis left me , when Mr. Confol came up , and after a hearty shake of the hand , and a most fignificant and fly wink of ...
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... received from Mr. William Taylor , of Norwich , by fa- vour of my friend Dr. Aikin . A Singular Event . Ar one end of the gallery , at Mostyn Hall , in Flintshire , is a great During the time that Henry earl of room , remarkable for a ...
... received from Mr. William Taylor , of Norwich , by fa- vour of my friend Dr. Aikin . A Singular Event . Ar one end of the gallery , at Mostyn Hall , in Flintshire , is a great During the time that Henry earl of room , remarkable for a ...
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... received me with civility as an Eng - phy of Voltaire , his table and theatre , lifh youth ; but I cannot boaft of any peculiar notice or diftinction , Virgi- lum vidi tantum . Anecdotes of Voltaire . refined , in a visible degree , the ...
... received me with civility as an Eng - phy of Voltaire , his table and theatre , lifh youth ; but I cannot boaft of any peculiar notice or diftinction , Virgi- lum vidi tantum . Anecdotes of Voltaire . refined , in a visible degree , the ...
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... received with contempt . Thou feekeft not thy own pleasure , no , it is for the people thou art haraffed from day to day . When thou wieldeft the rod of justice , thou bringeft to order all thofe who have deviated from the paths of ...
... received with contempt . Thou feekeft not thy own pleasure , no , it is for the people thou art haraffed from day to day . When thou wieldeft the rod of justice , thou bringeft to order all thofe who have deviated from the paths of ...
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... received the power from the Supreme for the creation of mankind , created the Hindoos in the following manner ; From his mouth he produced the Bramin , and defined his rank to be the most eminent ; allotting , for his bufinefs , the ...
... received the power from the Supreme for the creation of mankind , created the Hindoos in the following manner ; From his mouth he produced the Bramin , and defined his rank to be the most eminent ; allotting , for his bufinefs , the ...
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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.