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... Spirit ; to fhew the fatal effects of Favouritifm ; to . guard against the enormous Power of the Crown , and to expofe the wicked Tranfac- tions of its corrupt Minifters . At a Time , when not only from the De- generacy of Parliaments ...
... Spirit ; to fhew the fatal effects of Favouritifm ; to . guard against the enormous Power of the Crown , and to expofe the wicked Tranfac- tions of its corrupt Minifters . At a Time , when not only from the De- generacy of Parliaments ...
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... Spirit of Luxury and Profufion , which prevails over most Ranks of Peo- ple : For when once the major Part of the Individuals is vitiated , there is no Mif- chief , however remote it may seem to lie from us , that is not actually at the ...
... Spirit of Luxury and Profufion , which prevails over most Ranks of Peo- ple : For when once the major Part of the Individuals is vitiated , there is no Mif- chief , however remote it may seem to lie from us , that is not actually at the ...
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... spirit of knowledge and enquiry . Even the courts of juftice have in the most dangerous way , because under the fanction of law , been drawn in to fecond the dark views of an arbitrary ministry , and to stifle in the birth all infant ...
... spirit of knowledge and enquiry . Even the courts of juftice have in the most dangerous way , because under the fanction of law , been drawn in to fecond the dark views of an arbitrary ministry , and to stifle in the birth all infant ...
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... spirit of the war has for fome months infamoufly languifhed , nor is it yet revived . I own in- deed that the whole kingdom echoes with the found of triumph and feftivity , but it is from the glo rious conquests of the late ...
... spirit of the war has for fome months infamoufly languifhed , nor is it yet revived . I own in- deed that the whole kingdom echoes with the found of triumph and feftivity , but it is from the glo rious conquests of the late ...
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... spirit of the people , " the king indeed may make his minifters great fubjects , but they can never make him a great prince 66 < 6 Numb . II . Saturday , June 12 , 1762 . Malè fe res habet , cùm , quod VIRTUTE effici debet , id ten ...
... spirit of the people , " the king indeed may make his minifters great fubjects , but they can never make him a great prince 66 < 6 Numb . II . Saturday , June 12 , 1762 . Malè fe res habet , cùm , quod VIRTUTE effici debet , id ten ...
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Page 163 - even becaufe they have feduced my people, faying, Peace, and there was no Peace! and one built up a Wall, and lo! others daubed it with untempered mortar. Say unto them, which daub it with untempered mortar, that it (hall fall. BIBLE. IN the prefent fituation of affairs, when Peace is the great
Page 102 - is paid. His definition of excife is, that it is a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges
Page 100 - His definition then of a penfion is, an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally
Page 107 - tells the world, vol. ii. p. 230, that he is " A friend of princes, poets, wits, " A judge infallible of TITS." In my private opinion, however, the merit of loth was very great, and neither ought to pafs unnoticed. The impartial and inimitable pen of Cervantes has made Rozinante immortal as well as Don Quixote. Lord
Page 112 - knows what it means. Corn is reafonable plenty at this time; for fince they heard of the king's coming, it hath been as unlawful for the common people to eat -wheat, as it was in the old time for any but the priefts to eat
Page 111 - too, and good for thofe that can eat it raw ; but if it come once into their hands, it is worfe than if it were three days old; for their butter and cheefe I will not meddle withal at this time, nor no man elfe at any time that loves his life.
Page 213 - governed nation ; That war, or peace, or both, at once may be As things acquainted or familiar to us.
Page i - OTHERS. ILLUSTRATED WITH USEFUL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES, AND A COLLECTION OF ALL THE PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, AND COURTS OF WESTMINSTER, AGAINST Mr. WILKES. WITH ALL THE TRACTS AND PAPERS Relating to the NORTH BRITON, ESSAY ON WOMAN, ELECTION FOR MIDDLESEX, &c. The Whole forming a more Complete Collection than has hitherto been
Page 209 - rhime.. • Some copy with prodigious 'fkill The figures of a buttery-bill, Which with great folks of erudition Shall pafs for Coptic or Phoenician. While fome, as patriot love prevails, To compliment a Prince of Wales, Salute the royal babe in Welfh, And fend forth gutturals like a belch.