The Works ...: With the Author's Life and Character, Notes [etc.] In Eight Volumes, Volum 2A. Donaldson, 1761 |
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Pàgina 5
... mean productions , equally offenfive to good 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 ...
... mean productions , equally offenfive to good 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 ...
Pàgina 13
... means confined to any number , as might eafily appear from examples enough ; and be- cause the point is material , I fhall cite a few to prove it . * The Romans having fent to Athens , and the Greek cities of Italy , for the copies of ...
... means confined to any number , as might eafily appear from examples enough ; and be- cause the point is material , I fhall cite a few to prove it . * The Romans having fent to Athens , and the Greek cities of Italy , for the copies of ...
Pàgina 15
... means of Gothic invention , but hath place in nature and reafon , feems very well to agree with the fentiments of most le- giflators , and to have been followed in most states , whether they have appeared under the name of monar- chies ...
... means of Gothic invention , but hath place in nature and reafon , feems very well to agree with the fentiments of most le- giflators , and to have been followed in most states , whether they have appeared under the name of monar- chies ...
Pàgina 17
... mean , and below the dignity of a houfe , to quit a profecution ; to refolve upon a conclu fion before it is poflible to be apprifed of the premiffes : to act thus , I fay , is to affect not only abfolute power , but infallibility too ...
... mean , and below the dignity of a houfe , to quit a profecution ; to refolve upon a conclu fion before it is poflible to be apprifed of the premiffes : to act thus , I fay , is to affect not only abfolute power , but infallibility too ...
Pàgina 19
... means it happened , that the natives were never expelled by the fury of invaders , ( who thought it not worth a conqueft ) , but continued always Aborigines ; and therefore retained through all revolu tions a tincture of that turbulent ...
... means it happened , that the natives were never expelled by the fury of invaders , ( who thought it not worth a conqueft ) , but continued always Aborigines ; and therefore retained through all revolu tions a tincture of that turbulent ...
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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*.