The Works ...: With the Author's Life and Character, Notes [etc.] In Eight Volumes, Volum 2A. Donaldson, 1761 |
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Pàgina 5
... writing , which may prejudice another's fortune , the law punishes the offender with the lofs of his cars ; but has inflicted no adequate penalty for fuch as prejudice another's re- putation in doing the fame thing in print ; though all ...
... writing , which may prejudice another's fortune , the law punishes the offender with the lofs of his cars ; but has inflicted no adequate penalty for fuch as prejudice another's re- putation in doing the fame thing in print ; though all ...
Pàgina 6
... write below himfelf ; either his fubject not proving fo fruitful , or fitted for him , as he at firft imagined ; or his health , or his humour , or the prefent difpofition of his mind , unqualifying him at that juncture : however , if ...
... write below himfelf ; either his fubject not proving fo fruitful , or fitted for him , as he at firft imagined ; or his health , or his humour , or the prefent difpofition of his mind , unqualifying him at that juncture : however , if ...
Pàgina 7
... writer is in poffeffion of , the more of fuch trash he may bear to have tacked to him . Thus it is appă- rently the editor's intereft to infert what the author's judgment had rejected ; and care is always taken to in- terperfe thefe ...
... writer is in poffeffion of , the more of fuch trash he may bear to have tacked to him . Thus it is appă- rently the editor's intereft to infert what the author's judgment had rejected ; and care is always taken to in- terperfe thefe ...
Pàgina 19
... writing in , and relate only fuch diffenfions in Greece and Rome , between the nobles and commons , with the confequen . ces of them , wherein the latter were the aggreffors . I fhall begin with Greece , where my obfervations ( half be ...
... writing in , and relate only fuch diffenfions in Greece and Rome , between the nobles and commons , with the confequen . ces of them , wherein the latter were the aggreffors . I fhall begin with Greece , where my obfervations ( half be ...
Pàgina 32
... writer Dionyfius Halicarnaffeus , whose hiftory , through the injury of time , reaches no farther than to the beginning of the fourth century after the building of Roine . The reft I shall fupply from other authors ; though I do not ...
... writer Dionyfius Halicarnaffeus , whose hiftory , through the injury of time , reaches no farther than to the beginning of the fourth century after the building of Roine . The reft I shall fupply from other authors ; though I do not ...
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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*.