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Page xxi
... body of the opposition acted on those occasions — every line and letter of it come in proof of the immaculate virtue of the writer - not an iota of this his inmost thoughts , and most private sentiments , that can cast a suspicion upon ...
... body of the opposition acted on those occasions — every line and letter of it come in proof of the immaculate virtue of the writer - not an iota of this his inmost thoughts , and most private sentiments , that can cast a suspicion upon ...
Page xxx
... body of men would he go to all lengths . Right and only right as he understood it could claim his unal- terable allegiance . He had no use for class legislation , and would not be employed to bring it about . This sturdy independence of ...
... body of men would he go to all lengths . Right and only right as he understood it could claim his unal- terable allegiance . He had no use for class legislation , and would not be employed to bring it about . This sturdy independence of ...
Page xxxii
... body of men , and no number of men , can find means to trespass on the liberty of any person , or any description of persons , in the society . This kind of liberty is , indeed , but another name for justice ; ascer- tained by wise laws ...
... body of men , and no number of men , can find means to trespass on the liberty of any person , or any description of persons , in the society . This kind of liberty is , indeed , but another name for justice ; ascer- tained by wise laws ...
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... body , and with great pomp . Those who searched in them for new discoveries in the mysteries of nature ; those who expected something which might explain or direct the operations of the mind ; those who hoped to see morality illustrated ...
... body , and with great pomp . Those who searched in them for new discoveries in the mysteries of nature ; those who expected something which might explain or direct the operations of the mind ; those who hoped to see morality illustrated ...
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... bodies to the govern- ment of our understanding ; but enough has not been said upon the restraint which our bodily necessities ought to lay on the extravagant sublimities and eccentric rovings of our minds . The body , or , as some love ...
... bodies to the govern- ment of our understanding ; but enough has not been said upon the restraint which our bodily necessities ought to lay on the extravagant sublimities and eccentric rovings of our minds . The body , or , as some love ...
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Page 144 - No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Page 207 - An act for granting certain duties in the British colonies and plantations in America ; for allowing a drawback of the duties of customs* upon the exportation from this kingdom, of coffee and...
Page 342 - The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks?
Page 203 - English communion that gives all their life and efficacy to them. It is the spirit of the English Constitution, which, infused through the mighty mass, pervades, feeds, unites, invigorates, vivifies every part of the empire, even down to the minutest member.
Page 159 - I fear, falsify the pedigree of this fierce people, and persuade them that they are not sprung from a nation, in whose veins the blood of freedom circulates. The language in which they would hear you tell them this tale, would detect the imposition ; your speech would betray you. An Englishman is the unfittest person on earth to argue another Englishman into slavery.
Page 268 - Having terminated his disputes with every enemy and every rival, who buried their mutual animosities in their common detestation against the creditors of the Nabob of Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains.
Page 95 - O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death ; which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good ; Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire.
Page 316 - second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of " the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between " king and people — and, by the advice of Jesuits and other " wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, " and having withdrawn himself out of this kingdom — has " abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby
Page 148 - Their love of liberty, as with you, fixed and attached on this specific point of taxing. Liberty might be safe, or might be endangered in twenty other particulars, without their being much pleased or alarmed. Here they felt its pulse ; and as they found that beat, they thought themselves sick or sound.
Page 204 - It is the love of the people ; it is their attachment to their government from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you your army and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber.