Crito: Or, Essays on Various Subjects. ...Messrs. Dodsley; Becket and de Hondt; White; Payne; and Cooke, 1766 |
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Pàgina vi
... follow- ing pages , I have treated , with too little complaifance , certain generally - received opinions , as well as practices ; in confe- quence of which , my book and I may chance to have occafion for protection . And , I should ...
... follow- ing pages , I have treated , with too little complaifance , certain generally - received opinions , as well as practices ; in confe- quence of which , my book and I may chance to have occafion for protection . And , I should ...
Pàgina 23
... follows ; " Employ either a Whig or a Tory , " for one is as bad as the other . " But to proceed : WILL it not be hereafter fufpected , that the mo . ral fenfe was oppreffed by a temporary lethargy , when we carried our zeal for the ...
... follows ; " Employ either a Whig or a Tory , " for one is as bad as the other . " But to proceed : WILL it not be hereafter fufpected , that the mo . ral fenfe was oppreffed by a temporary lethargy , when we carried our zeal for the ...
Pàgina 32
... follow , that we ought to be fupremely anxious about getting free from that part of the public debt , which is due to foreigners ; fince the payment of fo large a tribute ( for what is it elfe ) is the empover- ishing of the nation . An ...
... follow , that we ought to be fupremely anxious about getting free from that part of the public debt , which is due to foreigners ; fince the payment of fo large a tribute ( for what is it elfe ) is the empover- ishing of the nation . An ...
Pàgina 33
... follows .. SCHEMES there have been offered enough for pay- ing the national debt , the respective authors of which have each been certain of the fuccefs of his own . I will not fay , that this political problem is as difficult , or as ...
... follows .. SCHEMES there have been offered enough for pay- ing the national debt , the respective authors of which have each been certain of the fuccefs of his own . I will not fay , that this political problem is as difficult , or as ...
Pàgina 43
... follow nature , and population is the effect . IT has been faid , " What can be more defirable , " than to have our children fecured to us ; especially daughters , whofe foft natures are eafily deluded into 66 66 love , " love ...
... follow nature , and population is the effect . IT has been faid , " What can be more defirable , " than to have our children fecured to us ; especially daughters , whofe foft natures are eafily deluded into 66 66 love , " love ...
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Crito, Or, Essays on Various Subjects. Vol. I.[-II. and Last].. James Burgh Visualització completa - 1766 |
Crito, Or, Essays on Various Subjects. Vol. I.[-II. and Last].. James Burgh Visualització completa - 1766 |
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Pàgina 209 - Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Pàgina 209 - VANITY of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun ? One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh : but the earth abideth for ever.
Pàgina 209 - For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
Pàgina 209 - For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun? "For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
Pàgina 263 - Now is the judgment of this world ; now is the prince of this world cast out, and I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.
Pàgina 171 - Father of mercies ! why from silent earth Didst thou awake, and curse me into birth ? Tear me from quiet, ravish me from night, And make a thankless present of thy light ? Push into being a reverse of thee, And animate a clod with misery ? " The beasts are happy; they come forth, and keep Short watch on earth, and then lie down to sleep.
Pàgina 209 - I have feen all the work« which are done under the fun, and behold all is vanity and vexation of fpirit.
Pàgina 150 - Ever anxious concerning his private economy, ever in dread of bankruptcy and poverty, how should he apply a due attention to what is sufficient alone to engage the whole man, with the abilities of an angel, and undisturbed by every other solicitude !" — CBITO, Essays on various Subjects.
Pàgina 62 - Complaifance, as long as the Crown can pay; and Mutiny, when it cannot ; and in general, that Motives of Self-Intereft will prove an improper and weak foundation for our Duty to our King and Country.
Pàgina 217 - There ** are many evils in this world, and men feem ** impelled by a natural inftincl: to the practice " of thofe things which reafon condemns ; but " that eternal mind, from which all fpirits derive " their exiftence, muft be inacceffible to all kinds " of evil, and alfo of a moft perfect and bene...