The Works ...: With the Author's Life and Character, Notes [etc.] In Eight Volumes, Volume 2A. Donaldson, 1761 - English literature |
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... late . Themistocles + was at firft a commoner himself : it was he that raised the Athenians to their greatness at sea , which he thought to be the true and constant intereft of that commonwealth ; and the famous naval victory over the ...
... late . Themistocles + was at firft a commoner himself : it was he that raised the Athenians to their greatness at sea , which he thought to be the true and constant intereft of that commonwealth ; and the famous naval victory over the ...
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... late . Thefe impeachınents perpetually falling upon many of the best men both in Greece and Rome , are a cloud of witneffes , and examples enough to difcourage men of virtue and abilities from engaging in the fervice of the public ; and ...
... late . Thefe impeachınents perpetually falling upon many of the best men both in Greece and Rome , are a cloud of witneffes , and examples enough to difcourage men of virtue and abilities from engaging in the fervice of the public ; and ...
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... late reign began the diftinction be tween the perfonal and politic capacity , feem to have had reafon , if they judged of princes by themselves ; for F think , there is hardly to be found through all nature a greater difference between ...
... late reign began the diftinction be tween the perfonal and politic capacity , feem to have had reafon , if they judged of princes by themselves ; for F think , there is hardly to be found through all nature a greater difference between ...
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... late proceedings of the Cominons is an accident , that , if it laft a while , might be improved to good ufes for setting the balance of power a little more upon an equality , than their late mea- fures feem to promife or admit . This ...
... late proceedings of the Cominons is an accident , that , if it laft a while , might be improved to good ufes for setting the balance of power a little more upon an equality , than their late mea- fures feem to promife or admit . This ...
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... late to copy after the Bishop of Sarum , hath , out of the pregnancy of his invention , found out an old way of infi- nuating the groffeft reflections under the appearance of adinonitions ; and is fo judicious a follower of the pre- late ...
... late to copy after the Bishop of Sarum , hath , out of the pregnancy of his invention , found out an old way of infi- nuating the groffeft reflections under the appearance of adinonitions ; and is fo judicious a follower of the pre- late ...
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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.
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