The Works ...: With the Author's Life and Character, Notes [etc.] In Eight Volumes, Volume 2A. Donaldson, 1761 - English literature |
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... cause the point is material , I fhall cite a few to prove it . * The Romans having fent to Athens , and the Greek cities of Italy , for the copies of the best laws , chofe ten legiflators to put them into form , and , during the exer ...
... cause the point is material , I fhall cite a few to prove it . * The Romans having fent to Athens , and the Greek cities of Italy , for the copies of the best laws , chofe ten legiflators to put them into form , and , during the exer ...
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... cause , as well as of the men , who had been thus dealt with by their country . I fhall direct him no further than by repeat- ing , that Ariftides was the moft renowned by the people themfelves for his exact juftice and knowledge in the ...
... cause , as well as of the men , who had been thus dealt with by their country . I fhall direct him no further than by repeat- ing , that Ariftides was the moft renowned by the people themfelves for his exact juftice and knowledge in the ...
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... caused such a convulfion and struggle in the ftate , that the constitution could not bear it ; but civil diffenfions arofe , which immediately were followed by the tyranny of a fingle perfon , as this was by the utter fubverfion of the ...
... caused such a convulfion and struggle in the ftate , that the constitution could not bear it ; but civil diffenfions arofe , which immediately were followed by the tyranny of a fingle perfon , as this was by the utter fubverfion of the ...
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... causes and the perfons , as well as in the con- fequences of fuch impeachments upon the peace of the ftate , we cannot conclude less , than that the commons in Greece and Rome ( whatever they may be in other ftates ) were by no means ...
... causes and the perfons , as well as in the con- fequences of fuch impeachments upon the peace of the ftate , we cannot conclude less , than that the commons in Greece and Rome ( whatever they may be in other ftates ) were by no means ...
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... cause , was thought to render them dangerous to the ftate ; the votes were given by writing the name of the perfon on a shell by the Greek's , called öspaxov , and casting the shell into an urn . Petalifm was a sentence nearly of the ...
... cause , was thought to render them dangerous to the ftate ; the votes were given by writing the name of the perfon on a shell by the Greek's , called öspaxov , and casting the shell into an urn . Petalifm was a sentence nearly of the ...
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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*.