The Works ...: With the Author's Life and Character, Notes [etc.] In Eight Volumes, Volume 2A. Donaldson, 1761 - English literature |
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... fame fate ; having been obtained from us by the importunity , and divulged by the indifcretion of friends , although reftrained by promifes , which few of them are ever known to observe , and often think they make us a com- pliment in ...
... fame fate ; having been obtained from us by the importunity , and divulged by the indifcretion of friends , although reftrained by promifes , which few of them are ever known to observe , and often think they make us a com- pliment in ...
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... fame circumftances ) that in feveral parts of our lives , and according to the difpofitions we were in , we have written fome things which we may wifh never to have thought on . Some fallies of levity ought to be imputed to youth ...
... fame circumftances ) that in feveral parts of our lives , and according to the difpofitions we were in , we have written fome things which we may wifh never to have thought on . Some fallies of levity ought to be imputed to youth ...
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... fame justice to these our friends , as to us ; and to be affured , that all the things called our mifcellanies ( except the works of Alexander Pope , published by B. Lintot , in quarto and folio , in 1717 ; thofe of Mr Gay by J. Tonfon ...
... fame justice to these our friends , as to us ; and to be affured , that all the things called our mifcellanies ( except the works of Alexander Pope , published by B. Lintot , in quarto and folio , in 1717 ; thofe of Mr Gay by J. Tonfon ...
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... fame time that by their practices they are endea- vouring to destroy it at home , are not fuch mighty pa- triots , or fo much in the true interest of their country , as they would affect to be thought ; but seem to be em- ployed like a ...
... fame time that by their practices they are endea- vouring to destroy it at home , are not fuch mighty pa- triots , or fo much in the true interest of their country , as they would affect to be thought ; but seem to be em- ployed like a ...
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... fame time pafs , with no other view but that of advancing the power of one party alone ; what is this but to claim a pofitive voice , as well as a negative ? To pretend that great changes and alienations of perty have created new and ...
... fame time pafs , with no other view but that of advancing the power of one party alone ; what is this but to claim a pofitive voice , as well as a negative ? To pretend that great changes and alienations of perty have created new and ...
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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*.