The Works ...: With the Author's Life and Character, Notes [etc.] In Eight Volumes, Volume 2A. Donaldson, 1761 - English literature |
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... forced after fome time to leave the Athenians to their own meafures upon account of their feditious temper , which ever continued with them , till the final diffolution of their government by the Romans . It feems , the coun- try about ...
... forced after fome time to leave the Athenians to their own meafures upon account of their feditious temper , which ever continued with them , till the final diffolution of their government by the Romans . It feems , the coun- try about ...
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... forced to engage his coun- try in the Peloponnefian war , the longest that ever was known in Greece , and which ended in the utter ruin of Athens . The fame people , having refolved to fubdue Sicily , fent a mighty fleet under the ...
... forced to engage his coun- try in the Peloponnefian war , the longest that ever was known in Greece , and which ended in the utter ruin of Athens . The fame people , having refolved to fubdue Sicily , fent a mighty fleet under the ...
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... forced to yield to the tribunes and people , thought it their wifeft courfe to give way also to time ; therefore a decree was made to fend ambaffadors to Athens , and to the o- ther Grecian commonwealths planted in that part of Italy ...
... forced to yield to the tribunes and people , thought it their wifeft courfe to give way also to time ; therefore a decree was made to fend ambaffadors to Athens , and to the o- ther Grecian commonwealths planted in that part of Italy ...
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... forced Pompey , against his inclinations , upon the neceffity of changing fides , for fear of being forfaken by both ; and of clofing in with the fenate and chief magi- ftrates , by whom he was chofen general against Cæfar .. Thus at ...
... forced Pompey , against his inclinations , upon the neceffity of changing fides , for fear of being forfaken by both ; and of clofing in with the fenate and chief magi- ftrates , by whom he was chofen general against Cæfar .. Thus at ...
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... forced to fly , and give way to the madness of the people , who by their own difpofitions ,. ftirred up with the harangues of their orators , were now wholly bent upon fingle and defpotic flavery .. Elfe , how could fuch a profligate as ...
... forced to fly , and give way to the madness of the people , who by their own difpofitions ,. ftirred up with the harangues of their orators , were now wholly bent upon fingle and defpotic flavery .. Elfe , how could fuch a profligate as ...
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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*.