The Works ...: With the Author's Life and Character, Notes [etc.] In Eight Volumes, Volum 2A. Donaldson, 1761 |
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Pàgina 5
... best method we could take for justifying ourselves , would be to publish whatever loofe papers , in profe and verfe , we have formerly written ; not only fuch as have already stole into the world ( very much to our regret , and perhaps ...
... best method we could take for justifying ourselves , would be to publish whatever loofe papers , in profe and verfe , we have formerly written ; not only fuch as have already stole into the world ( very much to our regret , and perhaps ...
Pàgina 7
... best authors ; the collectors only confidering , that fo many more sheets raise the price of the book ; and the greater fame a writer is in poffeffion of , the more of fuch trash he may bear to have tacked to him . Thus it is appă ...
... best authors ; the collectors only confidering , that fo many more sheets raise the price of the book ; and the greater fame a writer is in poffeffion of , the more of fuch trash he may bear to have tacked to him . Thus it is appă ...
Pàgina 11
... best legiflators of all ages have endeavoured , in their several schemes or inftitutions of government , to depofit in fuch hands as would preferve the people from rapine and op- preffion within , as well as violence from without . Most ...
... best legiflators of all ages have endeavoured , in their several schemes or inftitutions of government , to depofit in fuch hands as would preferve the people from rapine and op- preffion within , as well as violence from without . Most ...
Pàgina 13
... best laws , chofe ten legiflators to put them into form , and , during the exer- cife of their office , fufpended the confular power , lea- ving the administration of affairs in their hands . Thefe very men , though chofen for fuch a ...
... best laws , chofe ten legiflators to put them into form , and , during the exer- cife of their office , fufpended the confular power , lea- ving the administration of affairs in their hands . Thefe very men , though chofen for fuch a ...
Pàgina 14
... best men , without any provocation , from the mere luft of cruelty , like Nero or Caligula . This was fuch a number of tyrants together , as amounted to near a third part of the whole city ; for Xenophon tells us , that the ci- ty ...
... best men , without any provocation , from the mere luft of cruelty , like Nero or Caligula . This was fuch a number of tyrants together , as amounted to near a third part of the whole city ; for Xenophon tells us , that the ci- ty ...
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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*.