Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal EnlargedRalph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths R. Griffiths., 1795 - Books Editors: May 1749-Sept. 1803, Ralph Griffiths; Oct. 1803-Apr. 1825, G. E. Griffiths. |
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... feven millions of inhabitants , of whom eighteen millions might be fup- posed to be devoted to labour , whether in husbandry or manufactures , and nine millions to be capitalists or persons having an interest in their double produce ...
... feven millions of inhabitants , of whom eighteen millions might be fup- posed to be devoted to labour , whether in husbandry or manufactures , and nine millions to be capitalists or persons having an interest in their double produce ...
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... feven years on their journey , marching only a moon in each year . This tradition feems to corroborate the opinion that America was peopled from the north - east of Afia . Art . 26. Account of some of the principal Dies employed by the ...
... feven years on their journey , marching only a moon in each year . This tradition feems to corroborate the opinion that America was peopled from the north - east of Afia . Art . 26. Account of some of the principal Dies employed by the ...
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... feven propofitions , the great ends to which the Speech is directed . I. Every person , male or female , paying ten pounds a year in direct taxes , and producing a receipt for that sum from the collector of his parish , shall have a ...
... feven propofitions , the great ends to which the Speech is directed . I. Every person , male or female , paying ten pounds a year in direct taxes , and producing a receipt for that sum from the collector of his parish , shall have a ...
Page 456
... feven heads and ten horns ' means the civil power , as far as it was connected with the ecclefiaftical , of the western division of the Roman empire in Europe . The woman , represented as feated on the wild beast , is the apostate ...
... feven heads and ten horns ' means the civil power , as far as it was connected with the ecclefiaftical , of the western division of the Roman empire in Europe . The woman , represented as feated on the wild beast , is the apostate ...
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Page 339 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Page 299 - Of an action that is conformable to the principle of utility, one may always say either that it is one that ought to be done, or at least that it is not one that ought not to be done.
Page 402 - A great multitude of people are continually talking of the Law of Nature; and then they go on giving you their sentiments about what is right and what is wrong: and these sentiments, you are to understand, are so many chapters and sections of the Law of Nature.
Page 444 - But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear. Logan never felt fear. He will not turn on his heel to save his life.
Page 541 - Representations instead of collections of the people; a total separation of the executive from the legislative power, and of the judicial from both; and a balance in the legislature by three independent, equal branches are perhaps the only three discoveries in the constitution of a free government since the institution of Lycurgus.
Page 541 - ... discoveries in the constitution of a free government since the institution of Lycurgus. Even these have been so unfortunate that they have never spread: the first has been given up by all the nations, excepting one, which had once adopted it; and the other two, reduced to practice, if not invented, by the English nation, have never been imitated by any other except their own descendants in America.
Page 299 - Not that there is or ever has been that human creature breathing, however stupid or perverse, who has not on many, perhaps on most occasions of his life, deferred to it. By the natural constitution of the human frame, on most occasions of their lives men in general embrace this principle, without thinking of it...
Page 542 - The rich, the well-born, and the able acquire an influence among the people that will soon be too much for simple honesty and plain sense in a house of representatives. The most illustrious of them must, therefore, be separated from the mass and placed by themselves in a senate; this is, to all honest and useful intents, an ostracism.
Page 402 - ... 8. We have one philosopher, who says, there is no harm in any thing in the world but in telling a lie : and that if, for example, you were to murder your own father, this would only be a particular way of saying, he was not your father. Of course, when this philosopher sees any thing that he does not like, he says, it is a particular way of telling a lie.
Page 314 - If, therefore, the painter's landscape be indispensable to the perfection of gardening, it would surely be far better to paint it on canvas at the end of an avenue, as they do in Holland, than to sacrifice the health, cheerfulness, and comfort of a country residence, to the wild but pleasing scenery of a painter's imagination.