Essays, Moral and Political, Volume 2John Murray, 1832 - Great Britain |
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... perhaps have impeded the rising reputation of Toby , the Sapient Pig . I have reigned in the newspapers as paramount as Joanna Southcott during the last month of her tympany . Nay , columns have been devoted to Mr. Southey and Wat Tyler ...
... perhaps have impeded the rising reputation of Toby , the Sapient Pig . I have reigned in the newspapers as paramount as Joanna Southcott during the last month of her tympany . Nay , columns have been devoted to Mr. Southey and Wat Tyler ...
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... Perhaps , too , he may have condescended to notice the minor poems of the same author , sanctioned as some of these also were , at their first appearance , by the same critical authorities . In these pro- ductions he may have seen ...
... Perhaps , too , he may have condescended to notice the minor poems of the same author , sanctioned as some of these also were , at their first appearance , by the same critical authorities . In these pro- ductions he may have seen ...
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... perhaps you judge me by yourself ; and you may think that this is a fair criterion ; ; ... .but I must protest against being mea- sured by any such standard . Between you and me , Sir , there can be no sympathy , even though we should ...
... perhaps you judge me by yourself ; and you may think that this is a fair criterion ; ; ... .but I must protest against being mea- sured by any such standard . Between you and me , Sir , there can be no sympathy , even though we should ...
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... perhaps incapable of understanding the object which their own conduct has constantly tended to promote : in this respect they resemble the tanner , who lives in the effluvia of his tanpits , till he ceases to be sensible of the stink ...
... perhaps incapable of understanding the object which their own conduct has constantly tended to promote : in this respect they resemble the tanner , who lives in the effluvia of his tanpits , till he ceases to be sensible of the stink ...
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... perhaps might not have been overthrown , ..for Hannibal , like Marlborough , had his worst enemies at home . It may be neither uninteresting nor unprofitable to trace , if we can , the growth of a spirit by which England is so ...
... perhaps might not have been overthrown , ..for Hannibal , like Marlborough , had his worst enemies at home . It may be neither uninteresting nor unprofitable to trace , if we can , the growth of a spirit by which England is 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.