The Works ...: With the Author's Life and Character, Notes [etc.] In Eight Volumes, Volume 2A. Donaldson, 1761 - English literature |
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... drawn under the name of Themiftocles , yet he feems to be reprefented by Miltiades here ; for Themistocles was not impeached at all . See p . 20. Hawkef . Bould fhould not be fo . And Socrates * is introduced 40 CONTESTS AND DISSENSIONS.
... drawn under the name of Themiftocles , yet he feems to be reprefented by Miltiades here ; for Themistocles was not impeached at all . See p . 20. Hawkef . Bould fhould not be fo . And Socrates * is introduced 40 CONTESTS AND DISSENSIONS.
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... 1713 The complaint , which is faid in the note to happen upon the + See the note on Voyage to Brobdingnag , chap . 6. vol . 4 . VOL . II . E fir } who will undertake to hold a pen in their The public fpirit of the Whigs.
... 1713 The complaint , which is faid in the note to happen upon the + See the note on Voyage to Brobdingnag , chap . 6. vol . 4 . VOL . II . E fir } who will undertake to hold a pen in their The public fpirit of the Whigs.
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... seeing the character of a cenfor , a guardian , an Englishman , a commentator on the laws , an inftructor of the clergy , affumed by a child of obfcu- rity , without one fingle qualification to fupport them . This writer , who either ...
... seeing the character of a cenfor , a guardian , an Englishman , a commentator on the laws , an inftructor of the clergy , affumed by a child of obfcu- rity , without one fingle qualification to fupport them . This writer , who either ...
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... in other words , it feems reasonable to reafon . This is what he calls giving an idea of the original of power , and See the epi Bíðus , vol . 5. p . 68 , F 2 the the nature of civil inflitutions . To which I anfwer OF THE WHIGS . 67.
... in other words , it feems reasonable to reafon . This is what he calls giving an idea of the original of power , and See the epi Bíðus , vol . 5. p . 68 , F 2 the the nature of civil inflitutions . To which I anfwer OF THE WHIGS . 67.
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... the • The author's memory failed him a little in this affertion , as one of his answerers obferved . See the Examiner , No XIX . at the end , vol . 2 . union became neceffary , not for any actual good it union 721 THE PUBLIC SPIRIT.
... the • The author's memory failed him a little in this affertion , as one of his answerers obferved . See the Examiner , No XIX . at the end , vol . 2 . union became neceffary , not for any actual good it union 721 THE PUBLIC SPIRIT.
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 399 - ADVICE HUMBLY OFFERED TO -THE MEMBERS OF THE OCTOBER CLUB. In a Letter from a Person of Honour*.