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... facts , the know- ledge of which is confined to themselves . This is very distant from a blind devotion to government , which if disinterested , is imbecility , and if selfish , belongs to what is most abject in the constitution of our ...
... facts , the know- ledge of which is confined to themselves . This is very distant from a blind devotion to government , which if disinterested , is imbecility , and if selfish , belongs to what is most abject in the constitution of our ...
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... facts are too stubborn and no- torious to be distorted or misrepresented , at last comes the grand reserve and final shift of profligacy - the distinction between private and public character . We will close these general observations ...
... facts are too stubborn and no- torious to be distorted or misrepresented , at last comes the grand reserve and final shift of profligacy - the distinction between private and public character . We will close these general observations ...
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... fact , not as they are found in the flimsy sketches of ephe- meral eulogy . The felicity of Mr. Fox's temper was a boon of nature ; and as such , can never be ranked , by his country , in equal esti- mation with those forbearing and ...
... fact , not as they are found in the flimsy sketches of ephe- meral eulogy . The felicity of Mr. Fox's temper was a boon of nature ; and as such , can never be ranked , by his country , in equal esti- mation with those forbearing and ...
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... facts ; but we cannot but suspect him of those natural prepossessions which are almost inseparable from party - spirit ; and we think that the bias of these prepossessions is discernible throughout his history . It was said of the ...
... facts ; but we cannot but suspect him of those natural prepossessions which are almost inseparable from party - spirit ; and we think that the bias of these prepossessions is discernible throughout his history . It was said of the ...
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... fact . " The army , " as Mr. Fox had a little before observed , were the masters of the parliament , and being entirely influenced by Cromwell , gave a commencement to what may , properly speaking , be called a new reign . " And he adds ...
... fact . " The army , " as Mr. Fox had a little before observed , were the masters of the parliament , and being entirely influenced by Cromwell , gave a commencement to what may , properly speaking , be called a new reign . " And he adds ...
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Page 109 - And now behold I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there ; save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me. But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus to testify the Gospel of the grace of God.
Page 445 - Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.
Page 236 - And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan : and the land was polluted with blood.
Page 236 - First Moloch, horrid king besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears, Though for the noise of drums and timbrels loud Their children's cries unheard, that passed through fire To his grim idol.
Page 438 - Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of certain Laws...
Page 446 - Loses, discountenanced, and like folly shows: Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not after made Occasionally; and, to consummate all, Greatness of mind, and nobleness, their seat Build in her loveliest, and create an awe About her, as a guard angelic placed.
Page 442 - They do not consider their church establishment as convenient, but as essential to their state; not as a thing heterogeneous and separable; something added for accommodation ; what they may either keep or lay aside, according to their temporary ideas of convenience. They consider it as the foundation of their whole constitution, with which, and with every part of which, it holds an indissoluble union. Church and state are ideas inseparable in their minds, and scarcely is the one ever mentioned without...
Page 330 - Hounds are in their couples yelling, Hawks are whistling, horns are knelling, Merrily, merrily, mingle they, " Waken, lords and ladies gay." Waken, lords and ladies gay...
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Page 426 - Forasmuch as some ease to scrupulous consciences in the exercise of religion may be an effectual means to unite their Majesties...