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Pagina 2
... formed his premises , he seldom erred in his conclusions . His arguments were instructing and convincing ; and his integrity would not suffer him to deviate from truth and justice , to gratify those of the most exalted rank 2 THE ...
... formed his premises , he seldom erred in his conclusions . His arguments were instructing and convincing ; and his integrity would not suffer him to deviate from truth and justice , to gratify those of the most exalted rank 2 THE ...
Pagina 33
... formed a design of writing an History of his own time ; but he had made very little progress in it , when a lingering fever proved fatal to him . He died in the year 1721 , at Wimple , then a seat of the earl of Oxford , at a small ...
... formed a design of writing an History of his own time ; but he had made very little progress in it , when a lingering fever proved fatal to him . He died in the year 1721 , at Wimple , then a seat of the earl of Oxford , at a small ...
Pagina 46
... formed against the war , and steps were taken to censure and disgrace the conduct of the duke . All things being concerted for rendering the campaign of this year more successful than the former , the duke in the beginning of April ...
... formed against the war , and steps were taken to censure and disgrace the conduct of the duke . All things being concerted for rendering the campaign of this year more successful than the former , the duke in the beginning of April ...
Pagina 65
... forming a judgment of him in his public capacity . As to his private life , his enemies allow that it was exemplary . ** Authorities . Collin's Lives of the earls of Oxford , Lond . 1752. Biog . Britan . Birch's Lives Continuation of ...
... forming a judgment of him in his public capacity . As to his private life , his enemies allow that it was exemplary . ** Authorities . Collin's Lives of the earls of Oxford , Lond . 1752. Biog . Britan . Birch's Lives Continuation of ...
Pagina 71
... formed to be broken or uninterrupted by any of these accidents , as appears by his having completed three regular and excellent pieces before he had reached the age of twenty , viz . his " Seraphic Love ; " Essay on Mistaken Modesty ...
... formed to be broken or uninterrupted by any of these accidents , as appears by his having completed three regular and excellent pieces before he had reached the age of twenty , viz . his " Seraphic Love ; " Essay on Mistaken Modesty ...
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Pagina 157 - ... truth. He has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice, and easiness of manners with laxity of principles. He has restored virtue to its dignity, and taught innocence not to be ashamed. This is an elevation of literary character, " above all Greek, above all Roman fame.
Pagina 157 - ... though his station made him conspicuous, and his activity made him formidable, the character given him by his friends was never contradicted by his enemies: of those, with whom interest or opinion united him, he had not only the esteem, but the kindness; and of others, whom the violence of opposition drove against him, though he might lose the love, he retained the reverence.
Pagina 6 - If the plaintiff has a right, he must of necessity have a means to vindicate and maintain it, and a remedy if he is injured in the exercise or enjoyment of it; and indeed it is a vain thing to imagine a right without a remedy; for want of right and want of remedy are reciprocal.
Pagina 288 - A bill for regulating elections within the city of London, and for preserving the peace, good order, and government of the said city.
Pagina 376 - The bottom is paved with simple pebble, as is also the adjoining walk up the wilderness to the temple, in the natural taste, agreeing not ill with the little dripping murmur, and the aquatic idea of the whole place. It wants nothing to complete it, but a good statue with an inscription...
Pagina 330 - ... the poor author, the proprietor I should say, cannot perhaps dine till he has found out and agreed with a purchaser : yet before he can propose to seek for a purchaser, he must patiently submit to have his goods rummaged at this new excise-office...
Pagina 432 - Those aims alone are worthy of spirits truly great ; and such I therefore hope will be yours. Resentment indeed may remain, perhaps cannot be quite extinguished in the noblest minds; but revenge never will harbour there ; higher principles than those of the first, and better principles than those of the latter, will infallibly influence men whose thoughts and whose hearts are enlarged, and cause them to prefer the whole to any part of mankind, especially to so small a part as one's single self. Believe...
Pagina 65 - ... tis a soul like thine, a soul supreme, in each hard instance tried, above all pain, all passion and all pride, the rage of power, the blast of public breath, the lust of lucre and the dread of death.
Pagina 466 - And what if the Pretender should Come ? or, some Considerations of the Advantages and real Consequences of the Pretender's possessing the Crown of Great Britain.
Pagina 330 - I must look upon this bill as a most dangerous encroachment upon liberty in general. Nay, farther, my lords, it is not only an encroachment upon liberty, but it is likewise an encroachment upon property. Wit, my...