The Works ...: With the Author's Life and Character, Notes [etc.] In Eight Volumes, Volum 2A. Donaldson, 1761 |
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Pàgina 10
... King of Spain , and cKing William was made extremely uneafy by the violence with which many of his minifters and chief favourites were pur- fued by the Commons ; the King , to appease their refentment , had made feveral changes in his ...
... King of Spain , and cKing William was made extremely uneafy by the violence with which many of his minifters and chief favourites were pur- fued by the Commons ; the King , to appease their refentment , had made feveral changes in his ...
Pàgina 13
... 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 balance is broken ...
... 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 balance is broken ...
Pàgina 24
... King of that age ) , had indeed fome time before begun to break in upon the republics of Greece by conqueft or bribery ; particularly dealing large money among fome popular ora- tors , by which he brought many of them , as the term of ...
... King of that age ) , had indeed fome time before begun to break in upon the republics of Greece by conqueft or bribery ; particularly dealing large money among fome popular ora- tors , by which he brought many of them , as the term of ...
Pàgina 25
... King , whofe governor he was , reftored thofe whom Phocion had banished , the plot fucceeded . Phocion was accused by popular orators , and put to death . Thus was the most powerful commonwealth of all Greece , after great degeneracies ...
... King , whofe governor he was , reftored thofe whom Phocion had banished , the plot fucceeded . Phocion was accused by popular orators , and put to death . Thus was the most powerful commonwealth of all Greece , after great degeneracies ...
Pàgina 26
... King of Perfia's fleet ; that Pericles was an able minifter of ftate , an excellent orator , and a man of letters and , laftly , that Phocion , befides the fuccefs of his arms , was alfo renowned for his negotiations abroad , having in ...
... King of Perfia's fleet ; that Pericles was an able minifter of ftate , an excellent orator , and a man of letters and , laftly , that Phocion , befides the fuccefs of his arms , was alfo renowned for his negotiations abroad , having in ...
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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*.