The Works ...: With the Author's Life and Character, Notes [etc.] In Eight Volumes, Volum 2A. Donaldson, 1761 |
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Pàgina 5
... manners and good fenfe , which we never faw nor heard of till they appeared in print . For a forgery in fetting a falfe name to a writing , which may prejudice another's fortune , the law punishes the offender with the lofs of his cars ...
... manners and good fenfe , which we never faw nor heard of till they appeared in print . For a forgery in fetting a falfe name to a writing , which may prejudice another's fortune , the law punishes the offender with the lofs of his cars ...
Pàgina 7
... manner , that scarce any book of confequence can be bought , without pur- chafing fomething unworthy of the author along with it . But in our own country it is ftill worfe : thofe very bookfellers , who have fupported themfelves upon an ...
... manner , that scarce any book of confequence can be bought , without pur- chafing fomething unworthy of the author along with it . But in our own country it is ftill worfe : thofe very bookfellers , who have fupported themfelves upon an ...
Pàgina 8
... manner , confifts of what we not only thought unlikely to reach the future , but unworthy even of the present age ; not our ftudies , but our follies ; not our works , but our idleneffes . Some comfort however it is , that all of them ...
... manner , confifts of what we not only thought unlikely to reach the future , but unworthy even of the present age ; not our ftudies , but our follies ; not our works , but our idleneffes . Some comfort however it is , that all of them ...
Pàgina 16
... manner of tyranny and oppref fion , as it is poffible for a single perfon to be , though we should fuppofe their number not only to be of four or five hundred , but above three thousand . Again , It is manifest from what has been said ...
... manner of tyranny and oppref fion , as it is poffible for a single perfon to be , though we should fuppofe their number not only to be of four or five hundred , but above three thousand . Again , It is manifest from what has been said ...
Pàgina 18
... manner hath abfolute power been purfued by the feveral parties of each particular ftate ; wherein fingle perfons have met with most fuccefs , though the endeavours of the few and the many have been frequent enough : yet , being neither ...
... manner hath abfolute power been purfued by the feveral parties of each particular ftate ; wherein fingle perfons have met with most fuccefs , though the endeavours of the few and the many have been frequent enough : yet , being neither ...
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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*.