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... cause of all men's " mifery . " They therefore changed their former method , and affembling the men in their several societies , the most re- spectable for their understanding and fortunes , they confided to them the charge of the ...
... cause of all men's " mifery . " They therefore changed their former method , and affembling the men in their several societies , the most re- spectable for their understanding and fortunes , they confided to them the charge of the ...
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... cause , merely as the parties who uphold these jarring interests . may chance to prevail ; and as they prevail , the ballance is overfet , now upon one fide , now upon the other . The government is one day , arbitrary power in a single ...
... cause , merely as the parties who uphold these jarring interests . may chance to prevail ; and as they prevail , the ballance is overfet , now upon one fide , now upon the other . The government is one day , arbitrary power in a single ...
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... cause . Therefore judges were fet up , at first with difcretionary powers . But it was foon found a miferable flavery to have our lives and properties precarious , and hanging upon the arbitrary determination of any one man , or fet of ...
... cause . Therefore judges were fet up , at first with difcretionary powers . But it was foon found a miferable flavery to have our lives and properties precarious , and hanging upon the arbitrary determination of any one man , or fet of ...
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... cause . My cause , which two farmers from the plough could have decided in half an hour , takes the court twenty years . I am however at the end of my labour , and have in reward for all my toil and vexation , a judgment in my favour ...
... cause . My cause , which two farmers from the plough could have decided in half an hour , takes the court twenty years . I am however at the end of my labour , and have in reward for all my toil and vexation , a judgment in my favour ...
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... cause , I have often difcourfed with my friends at large . Pope has expreffed them in good verfe , where he talks with fo much force of reafon and elegance of language in praise of the state of nature : Then was not pride , nor arts ...
... cause , I have often difcourfed with my friends at large . Pope has expreffed them in good verfe , where he talks with fo much force of reafon and elegance of language in praise of the state of nature : Then was not pride , nor arts ...
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Page 76 - ... a sort of creative power of its own; either in representing at pleasure the images of things in the order and manner in which they were received by the senses, or in combining those images in a new manner, and according to a different order.
Page 564 - ... patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans, whigs and tories, treacherous friends and open enemies, — that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on.
Page 99 - Without all doubt, the torments which we may be made to suffer are much greater in their effect on the body and mind, than any pleasures which the most learned voluptuary could suggest, or than the liveliest imagination, and the most sound and exquisitely sensible body, could enjoy.
Page 115 - ... as for those called critics, they have generally sought the rule of the arts in the wrong place; they sought it among poems, pictures, engravings, statues, and buildings. But art can never give the rules that make an art. This is, I believe, the reason why artists in general, and poets principally, have been confined in so narrow a circle: they have been rather imitators of one another than of nature...
Page 112 - Now whatever either on good or upon bad grounds tends to raise a man in his own opinion, produces a sort of swelling and triumph that is extremely grateful to the human mind; and this swelling is never more perceived, nor operates with more force, than when without danger we are conversant with terrible objects, the mind always claiming to itself some part of the dignity and importance of the things which it contemplates.
Page 574 - Sir, let the gentlemen on the other side call forth all their ability, let the best of them get up and tell me, what one character of liberty the Americans have, and what one brand of slavery they are free from, if they are bound in their property and industry by all the restraints you can imagine on commerce, and at the same time are made packhorses of every tax you choose to impose, without the least share in granting them. When they bear the...
Page 523 - The feelings of the colonies were formerly the feelings of Great Britain. Theirs were formerly the feelings of Mr. Hampden when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune ? No ! but the payment of half twenty shillings, on the principle it was demanded, would have made him. a slave.
Page 105 - The satisfaction has been commonly attributed, first, to the comfort we receive in considering that so melancholy a story...
Page 192 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus...
Page 122 - IT is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to make it affecting to the imagination. If I make a drawing of a palace, or a temple, or a landscape, I present a very clear idea of those objects; but...