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... sort ) the best received authorities were directed to be followed . The reader , it is trusted , will find this object , too much disregard- ed in modern books , has here been kept in view throughout . The quotations which are ...
... sort ) the best received authorities were directed to be followed . The reader , it is trusted , will find this object , too much disregard- ed in modern books , has here been kept in view throughout . The quotations which are ...
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... sort of sullen labour , in which , if the author could succeed , he is obliged to own , that nothing could be more fatal to mankind than his success ? I cannot conceive how this sort of writers propose to.
... sort of sullen labour , in which , if the author could succeed , he is obliged to own , that nothing could be more fatal to mankind than his success ? I cannot conceive how this sort of writers propose to.
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... sort of pleasing surprize ; they run along with the speaker , charmed and captivated to find such a plentiful harvest of reasoning , where all seemed barren and unprom- ising . This is the fairy land of philosophy . And it very ...
... sort of pleasing surprize ; they run along with the speaker , charmed and captivated to find such a plentiful harvest of reasoning , where all seemed barren and unprom- ising . This is the fairy land of philosophy . And it very ...
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... sort of philo- sophical solidity , but we may reflect back on the severer sciences some of the graces and elegancies of taste , without which the greatest proficiency in those sciences will always have the appearance of something ...
... sort of philo- sophical solidity , but we may reflect back on the severer sciences some of the graces and elegancies of taste , without which the greatest proficiency in those sciences will always have the appearance of something ...
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... sort of method in estimating the numbers of mankind cut off in these wars which we have on record . But I am obliged to alter my design . Such a tragical uni- formity of havock and murder would disgust your Lordship as much as it would ...
... sort of method in estimating the numbers of mankind cut off in these wars which we have on record . But I am obliged to alter my design . Such a tragical uni- formity of havock and murder would disgust your Lordship as much as it would ...
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Page 113 - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd, that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either ; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 119 - Who hath sent out the wild ass free? Or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass? Whose house I have made the wilderness, And the barren land his dwellings. He scorneth the multitude of the city, Neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. The range of the mountains is his pasture, And he searcheth after every green thing.
Page 427 - It is therefore our business carefully to cultivate in our minds, to rear to the most perfect vigour and maturity, every sort of generous and honest feeling that belongs to our nature. To bring the dispositions that are lovely in private life into the service and conduct of the commonwealth ; so to be patriots, as not to forget we are gentlemen.
Page 122 - Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob; 8.
Page 115 - 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.
Page 322 - It is reconciled in policy ; and politics ought to be adjusted, not to human reasonings, but to human nature ; of which the reason is but a part, and by no means the greatest part.
Page 424 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Page 116 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up: It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice...
Page 111 - In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its object, that it cannot entertain any other, nor by consequence reason on that object which employs it.
Page 477 - ... vacant, unoccupied, and derelict minds of his friends ; and instantly they turned the vessel wholly out of the course of his policy. As if it were to insult as well as to betray him, even long before the close of the first session of his administration, when every thing was publickly transacted, and with great parade, in his name, they made an act, declaring it highly just and expedient to raise a revenue in America.