Lives of Illustrious and Distinguished Irishmen: From the Earliest Times to the Present Period, Arranged in Chronological Order, and Embodying a History of Ireland in the Lives of Irishmen, Volume 5, Part 1James Wills MacGregor, Polson, 1846 - Ireland |
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... nature of all his writings , and some parts , at least , of his conduct : this was a freedom from the influence thrown over the mind by the settled conventions of human opinion , and a con- sequent disposition to take novel and ...
... nature of all his writings , and some parts , at least , of his conduct : this was a freedom from the influence thrown over the mind by the settled conventions of human opinion , and a con- sequent disposition to take novel and ...
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... nature , should be heard with suspicion . " In 1713 , he went over to London , and there published a defence of his philosophical theory , in " Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous . " The ingenuity and the singular acuteness of ...
... nature , should be heard with suspicion . " In 1713 , he went over to London , and there published a defence of his philosophical theory , in " Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous . " The ingenuity and the singular acuteness of ...
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... nature . The world might have spared those writings which have in no way contri- buted to human wisdom , and are rather to be regarded as essays and examples of high intellectual power , than as leading to results , with perhaps one ...
... nature . The world might have spared those writings which have in no way contri- buted to human wisdom , and are rather to be regarded as essays and examples of high intellectual power , than as leading to results , with perhaps one ...
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... nature and consistence of these burning torrents have been described with so much exactness and truth , by Borellus , in his Latin treatise of mount Etna , that I need say nothing of it . I walked so far before my companions up the ...
... nature and consistence of these burning torrents have been described with so much exactness and truth , by Borellus , in his Latin treatise of mount Etna , that I need say nothing of it . I walked so far before my companions up the ...
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... nature , as to leave no record . In 1724 he was preferred by the duke of Grafton to the deanery of Derry , on which ... natural fruit of such a mind , and it became his favourite project . For him , the factitious splendour and the ...
... nature , as to leave no record . In 1724 he was preferred by the duke of Grafton to the deanery of Derry , on which ... natural fruit of such a mind , and it became his favourite project . For him , the factitious splendour and the ...
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Page 9 - In happy climes, where from the genial sun And virgin earth such scenes ensue, The force of Art by Nature seems outdone, And fancied beauties by the true : In happy climes, the seat of innocence...
Page 9 - In happy climes, the seat of innocence, Where nature guides and virtue rules, Where men shall not impose for truth and sense The pedantry of courts and schools : There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts.
Page 46 - New Experiments Physico-mechanical, touching the spring of the air, and its effects ; (made for the most part in a new pneumatical engine) written .... by the honourable Robert Boyle, Esq* experiment xxxvi.
Page 10 - Indian scholars and missionaries ; where he most exorbitantly proposes a whole hundred pounds a year for himself, forty pounds for a fellow, and ten for a student. His heart will break if his deanery be not taken from him, and left to your Excellency's disposal. I discouraged him, by the coldness of Courts and Ministers, who will interpret all this as impossible, and a vision, but nothing will do...
Page 12 - If you put this question to me," says Sir Robert, "as a minister, I must and can assure you, that the money shall most undoubtedly be paid as soon as suits with public convenience: but if you ask me as a friend, whether Dean Berkeley should continue in America, expecting the payment of 20,OOOZ., I advise him by all means to return home to Europe, and to give up his present expectations.
Page 238 - Ireland have been shed; yes, my good lord, I see you do not forget them; I see their sacred forms passing in sad review before your memory; I see your pained and softened fancy recalling those happy meetings...
Page 192 - Majesty that it is not by temporary expedients, but by a free trade alone, that this nation is now to be saved from impending ruin.
Page 93 - We have old Mr. Southern at a Gentleman's house a little way off, who often comes to see us ; he is now seventy-seven years old,* and has almost wholly lost his memory ; but is as agreeable as an old man can be, at least I persuade myself so when I look at him, and think of Isabella and Oroonoko.
Page 9 - There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts, Not such as Europe breeds in her decay, Such as she bred when fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Page 181 - Majesty to repress that daring spirit of disobedience, and to enforce a due submission to the laws; always considering that it is one of our most essential duties to maintain inviolate the supreme authority of the legislature of Great Britain over every part of the dominions of your Majesty's crown.