The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer, Volume 44R. Baldwin, 1775 - English essays |
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... leave hundreds of brethren , who under- ftood , and confcientiously adhered to their principles , expofed to penal laws by an act of their feeking by a vote , the committee were alfo then refrained from proceeding in an ap- plication ...
... leave hundreds of brethren , who under- ftood , and confcientiously adhered to their principles , expofed to penal laws by an act of their feeking by a vote , the committee were alfo then refrained from proceeding in an ap- plication ...
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... leave of the House to make his obfer- vations upon the whole of the evidence that had been produced on the linen business . Leave being accordingly given , he , in a fen- fible , fpirited , and judicious fpeech of up- wards of two hours ...
... leave of the House to make his obfer- vations upon the whole of the evidence that had been produced on the linen business . Leave being accordingly given , he , in a fen- fible , fpirited , and judicious fpeech of up- wards of two hours ...
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... leave to withdraw , which being granted , Mr. Demp- fter rofe and faid , that during the years he had lived , he never faw fo able an advocate as Mr. Glover that reaily , by the fenfible difcourfe he had then heard , it had greatly ...
... leave to withdraw , which being granted , Mr. Demp- fter rofe and faid , that during the years he had lived , he never faw fo able an advocate as Mr. Glover that reaily , by the fenfible difcourfe he had then heard , it had greatly ...
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... leave the chair , without leave to fit again , " which was carried with- out a divifion ; confequently the linen bu- finefs dropt for the feffion . Thus a matter which had taken up a great part of the at- tention of two feffions of ...
... leave the chair , without leave to fit again , " which was carried with- out a divifion ; confequently the linen bu- finefs dropt for the feffion . Thus a matter which had taken up a great part of the at- tention of two feffions of ...
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... leave the country , rather than trust their liberty and property to the caprice and ty- ranny of defpotic governors . " The English are now drawing up a petition to the King , lords , and commons , fetting forth the cruelty of impofing ...
... leave the country , rather than trust their liberty and property to the caprice and ty- ranny of defpotic governors . " The English are now drawing up a petition to the King , lords , and commons , fetting forth the cruelty of impofing ...
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Page 399 - His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Page 337 - I contemplate these things; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that, through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection...
Page 60 - House, except in such things as some way related to the business that was to be done within it. If he was ambitious, I will say this for him, his ambition was of a noble and generous strain. It was to raise himself, not by the low, pimping politics of a court, but to win his way to power through the laborious gradations of public service, and to secure himself a well-earned rank in Parliament by a thorough knowledge of its constitution and a perfect practice in all its business.
Page 60 - These forms are adapted to ordinary occasions ; and therefore persons who are nurtured in office do admirably well as long as things go on in their common order ; but when the high roads are broken up and the waters out, when a new and troubled scene is opened, and the file affords no precedent, then it is that a greater knowledge of mankind, and a far more extensive comprehension of things is requisite, than ever office gave, or than office can ever give.
Page 63 - I remember, Sir, with a melancholy pleasure, the situation of the honourable gentleman who made the motion for the repeal ; in that crisis, when the whole trading interest of this empire, crammed into your lobbies, with a trembling and anxious expectation, waited, almost to a winter's return of light, their fate from your resolutions. When at length you had determined in their...
Page 20 - That Almighty God may incline your minds to approve our equitable and necessary measures, to add yourselves to us, to put your fate, whenever you suffer injuries which you are determined to oppose, not on the small influence of your single Province, but on the consolidated powers of North America...
Page 60 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Page 60 - But it may be truly said that men too much conversant in office are rarely minds of remarkable enlargement. Their habits of office are apt to give them a turn to think the substance of business not to be much more important than the forms in which it is conducted. These forms are adapted to ordinary occasions ; and therefore persons who are nurtured in office do admirably well as long as things go on in their common order; but when the...
Page 128 - ... a part under him, with a modesty that becomes all men, and with a confidence in him which was justified even in its extravagance by his superior abilities, had never in any instance presumed upon any opinion of their own.
Page 336 - ... fortunate, men of his age, had opened to him in vision, that when, in the fourth generation, the third prince of the house of Brunswick had sat twelve years on the throne of that nation, which by the happy issue of moderate and healing councils was to be made Great Britain, he should see his son...