The Works ...: With the Author's Life and Character, Notes [etc.] In Eight Volumes, Volume 2A. Donaldson, 1761 - English literature |
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... fuch others as we fince have writ- ten . The fecond and third will confift of several small treatises in profe , in ... fuch as have already stole into the world ( very much to our regret , and perhaps very little to our credit ) , but ...
... fuch others as we fince have writ- ten . The fecond and third will confift of several small treatises in profe , in ... fuch as have already stole into the world ( very much to our regret , and perhaps very little to our credit ) , but ...
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... fuch amusements , we are refol- ved to give up what we cannot fairly difown , to the se- verity of critics , the malice of perfonal enemies , and the indulgence of friends . We are forry for the fatire interfperfed in fome of these ...
... fuch amusements , we are refol- ved to give up what we cannot fairly difown , to the se- verity of critics , the malice of perfonal enemies , and the indulgence of friends . We are forry for the fatire interfperfed in fome of these ...
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... fuch trash he may bear to have tacked to him . Thus it is appă- rently the editor's intereft to infert what the author's judgment had rejected ; and care is always taken to in- terperfe thefe additions in fuch a manner , that scarce any ...
... fuch trash he may bear to have tacked to him . Thus it is appă- rently the editor's intereft to infert what the author's judgment had rejected ; and care is always taken to in- terperfe thefe additions in fuch a manner , that scarce any ...
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... fuch hands as would preferve the people from rapine and op- preffion within , as well as violence from without . Most of them feem to agree in this , that it was a trust too great to be committed to any one man or affembly , and ...
... fuch hands as would preferve the people from rapine and op- preffion within , as well as violence from without . Most of them feem to agree in this , that it was a trust too great to be committed to any one man or affembly , and ...
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... fuch an incident brought it on the stage . Not to confent to the enacting of fuch a law , which has no view befides the general good , unless another law fhall at the fame time pafs , with no other view but that of advancing the power ...
... fuch an incident brought it on the stage . Not to confent to the enacting of fuch a law , which has no view befides the general good , unless another law fhall at the fame time pafs , with no other view but that of advancing the power ...
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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*.