The Works ...: With the Author's Life and Character, Notes [etc.] In Eight Volumes, Volume 2A. Donaldson, 1761 - English literature |
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... former ages , any more than that of general struggles and diffenfions be-- tween fixed affemblies of nobles and commons , and the ruin of Greece having been owing to the former , as that of Rome was to the latter , I shall treat on both ...
... former ages , any more than that of general struggles and diffenfions be-- tween fixed affemblies of nobles and commons , and the ruin of Greece having been owing to the former , as that of Rome was to the latter , I shall treat on both ...
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... former , perfons of age and experience ; the last , a young man of noble birth , excellent education , and a plentiful fortune . A little before the fleet fet fail , it feems one night the ftone images of Mercury , placed in feveral ...
... former , perfons of age and experience ; the last , a young man of noble birth , excellent education , and a plentiful fortune . A little before the fleet fet fail , it feems one night the ftone images of Mercury , placed in feveral ...
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... former were like the Barons of England fome time after the conqueft ; and the latter are alfo defcribed to be almoft exactly what our Commons were then . For they were dependents upon the Patricians , whom they chose for their patrons ...
... former were like the Barons of England fome time after the conqueft ; and the latter are alfo defcribed to be almoft exactly what our Commons were then . For they were dependents upon the Patricians , whom they chose for their patrons ...
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... former additions , was now amounted to three hundred . The people having once difcovered their own ftrength , did foon take occafion to exert it , and that by very great degrees . For at this King's death , who was murdered by the fons ...
... former additions , was now amounted to three hundred . The people having once difcovered their own ftrength , did foon take occafion to exert it , and that by very great degrees . For at this King's death , who was murdered by the fons ...
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... former , fhould now lie in common to the pretenfions of any Roman whatsoever . This , though it failed at prefent , yet afterwards obtained , and was a mighty step to the ruin of the commonwealth . What I have hitherto faid of Rome ...
... former , fhould now lie in common to the pretenfions of any Roman whatsoever . This , though it failed at prefent , yet afterwards obtained , and was a mighty step to the ruin of the commonwealth . What I have hitherto faid of Rome ...
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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.
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