Essays, Moral and Political, Volume 2John Murray, 1832 - Great Britain |
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... whole force of the sentiments to the writer as if he himself held them , without the slightest qualifica tion , is a mode of criticism manifestly absurd and unjust . Whether it proceeded in this instance from excess of malice , or ...
... whole force of the sentiments to the writer as if he himself held them , without the slightest qualifica tion , is a mode of criticism manifestly absurd and unjust . Whether it proceeded in this instance from excess of malice , or ...
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... whole crew of Ultra Whigs and Anar- chists , from Messrs . Brougham and Clodius , down to Cobbett , Cethegus , and Co. Many were the Englishmen who wished well to the French at the commencement of their Re- volution ; but if any of ...
... whole crew of Ultra Whigs and Anar- chists , from Messrs . Brougham and Clodius , down to Cobbett , Cethegus , and Co. Many were the Englishmen who wished well to the French at the commencement of their Re- volution ; but if any of ...
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... whole tenour of my writings , whether in prose or verse , bears witness . This has been the pole- star of my course ; the needle has shifted accord- ing to the movements of the state - vessel wherein I am embarked , but the direction to ...
... whole tenour of my writings , whether in prose or verse , bears witness . This has been the pole- star of my course ; the needle has shifted accord- ing to the movements of the state - vessel wherein I am embarked , but the direction to ...
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... whole districts will not always be suffered to lie waste while multitudes are in want of employment and of bread . A duty scarcely less urgent than that of dimi nishing the burthen of the poor - rates , is that of providing for the ...
... whole districts will not always be suffered to lie waste while multitudes are in want of employment and of bread . A duty scarcely less urgent than that of dimi nishing the burthen of the poor - rates , is that of providing for the ...
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... whole artillery of wisdom and righteousness , with all the resources of science , and all the ardour of enlightened and enlarged benevolence ? It is likewise incumbent upon government to take heed lest in its solicitude for raising the ...
... whole artillery of wisdom and righteousness , with all the resources of science , and all the ardour of enlightened and enlarged benevolence ? It is likewise incumbent upon government to take heed lest in its solicitude for raising the ...
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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.