The Works ...: With the Author's Life and Character, Notes [etc.] In Eight Volumes, Volum 2A. Donaldson, 1761 |
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Pàgina 8
... Such as they are , we must in truth confefs , they are ours , and others fhould in juftice believe , they are all that are ours . If any thing else has been printed , in which we really had any hand , it is either intolerably mperfect ...
... Such as they are , we must in truth confefs , they are ours , and others fhould in juftice believe , they are all that are ours . If any thing else has been printed , in which we really had any hand , it is either intolerably mperfect ...
Pàgina 13
... Such was that of the two Kings of Sparta , the confular power in Rome , that of the Kings of Media before the reign of Cy- rus , as reprefented by Xenophon ; and that of the feve- ral limited states in the Gothic inftitution . When the ...
... Such was that of the two Kings of Sparta , the confular power in Rome , that of the Kings of Media before the reign of Cy- rus , as reprefented by Xenophon ; and that of the feve- ral limited states in the Gothic inftitution . When the ...
Pàgina 15
... Such was that of Sparta , in its primitive in- ftitution by Lycurgus ; who , obferving the corruptions and depravations to which every of thefe was fubject , compounded his fcheme out of all , fo that it was made up of reges , feniores ...
... Such was that of Sparta , in its primitive in- ftitution by Lycurgus ; who , obferving the corruptions and depravations to which every of thefe was fubject , compounded his fcheme out of all , fo that it was made up of reges , feniores ...
Pàgina 17
... such in- novation , enough to melt down and make it of a piece with the conftitution . Such , we are told , were the pro- ceedings of Solon , when he modelled anew the Athenian commonwealth ; and what convulfions in our own , as This ...
... such in- novation , enough to melt down and make it of a piece with the conftitution . Such , we are told , were the pro- ceedings of Solon , when he modelled anew the Athenian commonwealth ; and what convulfions in our own , as This ...
Pàgina 29
... such a convulfion and struggle in the ftate , that the constitution could not bear it ; but civil diffenfions arofe , which immediately were followed by the tyranny of a fingle perfon , as this was by the utter fubverfion of the regal ...
... such a convulfion and struggle in the ftate , that the constitution could not bear it ; but civil diffenfions arofe , which immediately were followed by the tyranny of a fingle perfon , as this was by the utter fubverfion of the regal ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 403 - We are plagued here with an October Club ; that is, a set of above a hundred Parliamentmen of the country, who drink October beer at home, and meet every evening at a tavern near the Parliament, to consult affairs, and drive things on to extremes against the Whigs, to call the old ministry to account, and get off five or six heads.
Pàgina 42 - For, although in their corrupt notions of divine worship, they are apt to multiply their gods; yet their earthly devotion is seldom paid to above one idol at a time of their own creation, whose oar they pull with less murmuring and much more skill, than when they share the lading, or even hold the helm.
Pàgina 399 - ADVICE HUMBLY OFFERED TO -THE MEMBERS OF THE OCTOBER CLUB. In a Letter from a Person of Honour*.