The Works ...: With the Author's Life and Character, Notes [etc.] In Eight Volumes, Volum 2A. Donaldson, 1761 |
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Pàgina 8
... hand , it is either intolerably mperfect , or loaded with spurious additions ; fometimes even with infertions of mens names , which we never meant , and for whom we have an esteem and respect . Even thofe pieces in which we are leaft ...
... hand , it is either intolerably mperfect , or loaded with spurious additions ; fometimes even with infertions of mens names , which we never meant , and for whom we have an esteem and respect . Even thofe pieces in which we are leaft ...
Pàgina 9
... hands . The reader is therefore defired to do the fame justice to these our friends , as to us ; and to be affured , that all the things called our mifcellanies ( except the works of Alexander Pope , published by B. Lintot , in quarto ...
... hands . The reader is therefore defired to do the fame justice to these our friends , as to us ; and to be affured , that all the things called our mifcellanies ( except the works of Alexander Pope , published by B. Lintot , in quarto ...
Pàgina 11
... hands as would preferve the people from rapine and op- preffion within , as well as violence from without . Most of them feem to agree in this , that it was a trust too great to be committed to any one man or affembly , and therefore ...
... hands as would preferve the people from rapine and op- preffion within , as well as violence from without . Most of them feem to agree in this , that it was a trust too great to be committed to any one man or affembly , and therefore ...
Pàgina 12
... hands of one , or fometimes two , ( as in Sparta ) , who were called Kings ; or in a fenate , who were called the ... hand that holds it ; and then the two fcales , with what- ever is weighed therein . Now , confider several states in a ...
... hands of one , or fometimes two , ( as in Sparta ) , who were called Kings ; or in a fenate , who were called the ... hand that holds it ; and then the two fcales , with what- ever is weighed therein . Now , confider several states in a ...
Pàgina 13
... hands of a fingle perfon , ( as many fuperficial men have grofsly mistaken ) , but for the break- ing of the balance by whatever hand , and leaving the power wholly in one fcale ; for tyranny and ufurpation in a state are by no means ...
... hands of a fingle perfon , ( as many fuperficial men have grofsly mistaken ) , but for the break- ing of the balance by whatever hand , and leaving the power wholly in one fcale ; for tyranny and ufurpation in a state are by no means ...
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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*.