The Works ...: With the Author's Life and Character, Notes [etc.] In Eight Volumes, Volume 2A. Donaldson, 1761 - English literature |
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... Queen ANNE of the affront put on them and their nation by the author of this treatise . Whereupon a proclamation was published by her Majefty , offering a reward of 300 1. to dif cover him . The reason for offering fo fmall a fum was ...
... Queen ANNE of the affront put on them and their nation by the author of this treatise . Whereupon a proclamation was published by her Majefty , offering a reward of 300 1. to dif cover him . The reason for offering fo fmall a fum was ...
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... Queen and her minifters . Among the prefent writers on that fide I can recollect but three of any great distinction , which are the Flying Poft , Mr Dunton , and the author of the Crifis * . The first of these seems to have been much ...
... Queen and her minifters . Among the prefent writers on that fide I can recollect but three of any great distinction , which are the Flying Poft , Mr Dunton , and the author of the Crifis * . The first of these seems to have been much ...
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... Queen and her fervants ; which his coadjutors , the Earl of Nottingham , Mr Dunton , and the Flying Post , had long ago fet before us in a much clearer light . In Popish countries , when fome impoftor cries out , A miracle ! a miracle ...
... Queen and her fervants ; which his coadjutors , the Earl of Nottingham , Mr Dunton , and the Flying Post , had long ago fet before us in a much clearer light . In Popish countries , when fome impoftor cries out , A miracle ! a miracle ...
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... Queen " and minifters , who have been hitherto content with " only disappointing the lurking villanies of your faction , " may be at laft provoked to expofe them . " 66 ઉંડ But his refpect for the clergy is fuch , that he doth not ...
... Queen " and minifters , who have been hitherto content with " only disappointing the lurking villanies of your faction , " may be at laft provoked to expofe them . " 66 ઉંડ But his refpect for the clergy is fuch , that he doth not ...
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... QUEEN and her fervants ; therefore by the learned , wealthy , and knowing gentry he must understand the bank and East India company , and thofe other merchants or citizens within the bills of mortality , who have been ftrenuous a gainst ...
... QUEEN and her fervants ; therefore by the learned , wealthy , and knowing gentry he must understand the bank and East India company , and thofe other merchants or citizens within the bills of mortality , who have been ftrenuous a gainst ...
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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*.