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... look upon the sanguinary measures , and in- struments of violence , which are everywhere used to sup- port them . Let us take a review of the dungeons , whips , chains , racks , gibbets , with which every society is abundantly stored ...
... look upon the sanguinary measures , and in- struments of violence , which are everywhere used to sup- port them . Let us take a review of the dungeons , whips , chains , racks , gibbets , with which every society is abundantly stored ...
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... look upon as so great a blessing . Revolve , my Lord , our history from the conquest . We scarce ever had a prince , who by fraud , or violence , had not made some infringement on the constitution . We scarce ever had a parliament which ...
... look upon as so great a blessing . Revolve , my Lord , our history from the conquest . We scarce ever had a prince , who by fraud , or violence , had not made some infringement on the constitution . We scarce ever had a parliament which ...
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... look with contempt on what he admired at first ; not that he admired it even then for its unlikeness to a man , but for that general , though inaccurate , resemblance which it bore to the human figure . What he admired at different ...
... look with contempt on what he admired at first ; not that he admired it even then for its unlikeness to a man , but for that general , though inaccurate , resemblance which it bore to the human figure . What he admired at different ...
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... look on anything as trifling , or contemptible , that may be dangerous . There are many animals , who though far from being large , are yet capable of raising ideas of the sublime , because they are considered as objects of terror . As ...
... look on anything as trifling , or contemptible , that may be dangerous . There are many animals , who though far from being large , are yet capable of raising ideas of the sublime , because they are considered as objects of terror . As ...
Page 92
... Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations ; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.- Here is a very noble picture ; and in what ...
... Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations ; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.- Here is a very noble picture ; and in what ...
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