Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, Volume 46Pub. for J. Hinton, 1770 |
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... eyes the exorbitant as well as intolerable autho- rity of the elder Doria , which the ambition of Giannetino , and the partiality of the Em- peror to a family more devoted to him than to their country , was about to enlarge and to ...
... eyes the exorbitant as well as intolerable autho- rity of the elder Doria , which the ambition of Giannetino , and the partiality of the Em- peror to a family more devoted to him than to their country , was about to enlarge and to ...
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... eyes , fuch was his moderation and magnanimity , that the decree iffued by the Senate against the confpirators did not ex- ceed that juft measure of feverity which was requifite for the fupport of Government , and was dictated neither ...
... eyes , fuch was his moderation and magnanimity , that the decree iffued by the Senate against the confpirators did not ex- ceed that juft measure of feverity which was requifite for the fupport of Government , and was dictated neither ...
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... eyes on the guard of his fword , which he held up instead of a crofs , he addrefled his prayers to God , and in this pofture , which became his character both as a foldier and as a Chriftian , he calmly waited the approach of death ...
... eyes on the guard of his fword , which he held up instead of a crofs , he addrefled his prayers to God , and in this pofture , which became his character both as a foldier and as a Chriftian , he calmly waited the approach of death ...
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... eye , I made myfelf guilty of a crime which I have not power to explain . I was under a neceffity to difappear , for fear of ending my days on a fcaffold ; and , notwithstanding all the in terceffion made for me by the intereft of my ...
... eye , I made myfelf guilty of a crime which I have not power to explain . I was under a neceffity to difappear , for fear of ending my days on a fcaffold ; and , notwithstanding all the in terceffion made for me by the intereft of my ...
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... eyes but his own . Myrmecides had conftructed a coach with four horfes and the coachman in fo fmall a compafs , that the whole could lie covered with the wing of a fly : A veffel of the fame artist was covered with the wing of a bee ...
... eyes but his own . Myrmecides had conftructed a coach with four horfes and the coachman in fo fmall a compafs , that the whole could lie covered with the wing of a fly : A veffel of the fame artist was covered with the wing of a bee ...
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Page 204 - That you be carried from hence to the place from whence you came, and from thence to the place of execution, and there to be hanged by the neck till you are dead ; and may the Lord have mercy on your soul...
Page 111 - THEY also are to be had accursed, that presume to say, that every man shall be saved by the law or sect which he professeth, so that he be diligent to frame his life according to that law, and the light of nature. For holy Scripture doth set out unto us only the name of Jesus Christ, whereby men must be saved.
Page 376 - We all know that the very soul and essence of trade are regular payments ; and sad experience teaches us, that there are men, who will not make their regular payments without the compulsive power of the laws. The law, then, ought to be equally open to all ; any exemption to particular men, or particular ranks of men, is, in a free and commercial country, a solecism of the grossest nature.
Page 111 - Albeit that good works, which are the fruits of faith, and follow after Justification, cannot put away our sins, and endure the severity of God's judgment ; yet -are they pleasing and acceptable to God in Christ, and do spring out necessarily of a true and lively faith ; insomuch that by them a lively faith may be as evidently known, as a tree discerned by the fruit.
Page 164 - His majefty went to the , houfe of peers, and gave ' the royal aflent to the following bills, viz. The bill, to continue an aft for allowing the free importation of wheat and wheat-flour, barley, barley -meal, and pulfe, for a further limited time, from any part of Europe.
Page 16 - Thirdly, the book names none but lawful recreations : therefore, if any unlawful be used, the book gives them no warrant. And that some are lawful, (after the public service of God is ended,) appears by the practice of Geneva, where, after evening prayer, the elder men bowl, and the younger train.
Page 377 - Experience might inform them that many, who have been saluted with the huzzas of a crowd one day, have received their execrations the next ; and many, who by the popularity of their times, have been held up as spotless patriots, have, nevertheless, appeared upon the historian's page, when truth has triumphed over delusion, the assassins of liberty.
Page 146 - I have ever made the law of the land the rule of my conduct, esteeming it my chief glory to reign over a free people...
Page 142 - The people have been invariably uniform in their object, though the different mode of attack has called for a different defence. " Under James the second, they complained that the...
Page 377 - I sincerely pity; I pity them still more, if their vanity leads them to mistake the shouts of a mob for the trumpet of fame.