Essays, Moral and Political, Volume 2John Murray, 1832 - Great Britain |
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... common report : in following which you may happen to be as much mistaken as I was when upon the same grounds I supposed Mr. William Smith to be a man of candour , incapable of grossly and wantonly insulting an individual . The Quarterly ...
... common report : in following which you may happen to be as much mistaken as I was when upon the same grounds I supposed Mr. William Smith to be a man of candour , incapable of grossly and wantonly insulting an individual . The Quarterly ...
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... common- wealths , was an easy transition ; the next step was to realize the vision , and in the hope of ac- complishing this I forsook the course of life for which I had been designed , and the prospects of advancement which I may say ...
... common- wealths , was an easy transition ; the next step was to realize the vision , and in the hope of ac- complishing this I forsook the course of life for which I had been designed , and the prospects of advancement which I may say ...
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... Common sense will allow of such a distinction as little as common law . The story is well known of a duellist who proposed to mark out his own lean dimensions upon the waistcoat of a corpulent antagonist , saying that if he did not hit ...
... Common sense will allow of such a distinction as little as common law . The story is well known of a duellist who proposed to mark out his own lean dimensions upon the waistcoat of a corpulent antagonist , saying that if he did not hit ...
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... Common Hall would submit to the people , that they may ascertain its truth ! They petition Parliament to let the question be tried and decided by the whole people , instead of putting it in train to be brought before a jury ! They take ...
... Common Hall would submit to the people , that they may ascertain its truth ! They petition Parliament to let the question be tried and decided by the whole people , instead of putting it in train to be brought before a jury ! They take ...
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... common and necessary operations . In time of war they go on from step to step , pleading the enemy's cause with all the warmth and zeal of unfee'd advocates , till they have identified their own feelings with his ; and they pursue so ...
... common and necessary operations . In time of war they go on from step to step , pleading the enemy's cause with all the warmth and zeal of unfee'd advocates , till they have identified their own feelings with his ; and they pursue so ...
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better bishops British called calumnies Catholic Emancipation CATHOLIC QUESTION cause character Church Church of England circumstances clergy condition consequences danger declared degree desire duty effect EMIGRATION England English established evil existing faith favour feelings France French revolution heart honour House human increase Ireland Irish Jacobine justice king kingdom labour land laws less liberty look Lord Byron manufactures means measure ment mind miserable moral nation nature never oath object occasion opinions parents parish parliament party pauperism persecution persons political poor Poor Laws Pope population present priests principles produced prosperity Protestant racter reason reform religion religious ROBERT SOUTHEY Roman Catholic Romish Satanic School says Sir Robert Inglis society Socinianism Southey sovereign spirit suffered suppose thing thought tion tithes titular bishops toleration wages Wat Tyler whole William Smith words writer
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Page 174 - The school which they have set up may properly be called the Satanic School, for though their productions breathe the spirit of Belial in their lascivious parts, and the spirit of Moloch in those loathsome images of atrocities and horrors which they delight to represent, they are more especially characterised by a Satanic spirit of pride and audacious impiety, which still betrays the wretched feeling of hopelessness wherewith it is allied.
Page 94 - The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself. 1 3 The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.
Page 58 - For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Page 12 - ... with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his strength, and therefore they loved him as truly and as fervently as he loved England.
Page 176 - The government may exult over the repression of petty tumults ; these are but the receding waves repulsed and broken for a moment on the shore, while the great tide is still rolling on and gaining ground with every breaker.
Page 365 - MY Lord Clarendon has observed, that few men have done more harm than those who have been thought to be able to do least ; and there cannot be a greater error, than to believe a man, whom we see qualified with too mean parts to do good, to be therefore incapable of doing hurt. There is a supply of malice, of pride, of industry, and even of folly, in the weakest, when he sets his heart upon it, that makes a strange progress in mischief.
Page 181 - But I am accustomed to such things ; and, so far from irritating me are the enemies who use such weapons, that when I hear of their attacks, it is some satisfaction to think they have thus employed the malignity which must have been employed somewhere, and could not have been directed against any person whom It could possibly molest or injure less. The viper, however venomous in purpose, is harmless in effect while it is biting at the file. It is seldom, mdeed, that I waste a word or a thought upon...
Page 353 - I do solemnly swear, that I never will exercise any privilege to which I am or may become entitled, to disturb or weaken the Protestant religion, or Protestant Government, in the United Kingdom...
Page 31 - Johns of Leyden, the instruments of his vengeance, that the power of the Almighty might be more evident by the weakness of the means which he chooses to demonstrate it. He did not assemble the serpents and the monsters of Afric, to correct the pride of the Egyptians ; but called for his armies of locusts out of ^Ethiopia, and formed new ones of vermin out of the very dust...
Page 384 - The counsel which they shall intrust me withal, by themselves, their messengers or letters, I will not knowingly reveal to any, to their prejudice. I will help them to defend and keep the Roman Papacy and the Royalties of St. Peter, saving my order, against all men.