The Works ...: With the Author's Life and Character, Notes [etc.] In Eight Volumes, Volum 2A. Donaldson, 1761 |
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Pàgina 7
... thought on . Some fallies of levity ought to be imputed to youth , ( fuppofed in charity , as it was in truth , to be the time in which we wrote them ) ; others to the gaiety of our minds at certain junctures common to all men . The ...
... thought on . Some fallies of levity ought to be imputed to youth , ( fuppofed in charity , as it was in truth , to be the time in which we wrote them ) ; others to the gaiety of our minds at certain junctures common to all men . The ...
Pàgina 8
... 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 are in- nocent , and most of them ...
... 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 are in- nocent , and most of them ...
Pàgina 16
... thought ; but seem to be em- ployed like a man , who pulls down with his right hand what he has been building with his left . 3dly , This makes appear the error of those who think it an uncontrollable maxim , that power is always fafer ...
... thought ; but seem to be em- ployed like a man , who pulls down with his right hand what he has been building with his left . 3dly , This makes appear the error of those who think it an uncontrollable maxim , that power is always fafer ...
Pàgina 19
... thought it not worth a conqueft ) , but continued always Aborigines ; and therefore retained through all revolu tions a tincture of that turbulent fpirit wherewith their government began . This inftitution of Thefeus appears to have ...
... thought it not worth a conqueft ) , but continued always Aborigines ; and therefore retained through all revolu tions a tincture of that turbulent fpirit wherewith their government began . This inftitution of Thefeus appears to have ...
Pàgina 22
... thought it not below the dignity of an affembly to endeavour at correcting an ill ftep ; at least to repent , though it often fell out too late . Themistocles + was at firft a commoner himself : it was he that raised the Athenians to ...
... thought it not below the dignity of an affembly to endeavour at correcting an ill ftep ; at least to repent , though it often fell out too late . Themistocles + was at firft a commoner himself : it was he that raised the Athenians to ...
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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*.