The Works ...: With the Author's Life and Character, Notes [etc.] In Eight Volumes, Volume 2A. Donaldson, 1761 - English literature |
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... peace at home ; this commences a great council or fenate of nobles for the weighty affairs of the nation . The last division is of the mass or body of the people , whofe part of power is great and indifputable , whenever they can unite ...
... peace at home ; this commences a great council or fenate of nobles for the weighty affairs of the nation . The last division is of the mass or body of the people , whofe part of power is great and indifputable , whenever they can unite ...
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... peace , by which - his country was preserved . I fhall conclude my remarks upon Athens with the character given us of that people by Polybius . About this time , lays he , the Athenians were governed by two men ; quite funk in their ...
... peace , by which - his country was preserved . I fhall conclude my remarks upon Athens with the character given us of that people by Polybius . About this time , lays he , the Athenians were governed by two men ; quite funk in their ...
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... peace the quarrels between the nobles and the plebeians would revive ; and one of the most frequent fubjects of their differences was the conquered lands , which the commons would fain have divided among the public ; but the fenate ...
... peace the quarrels between the nobles and the plebeians would revive ; and one of the most frequent fubjects of their differences was the conquered lands , which the commons would fain have divided among the public ; but the fenate ...
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... peace , fell violently upon advancing the power of the people by reducing into practice all thofe incroachments , which they had been fo many years gaining . There were at that time certain conquered lands to be divided , befide a great ...
... peace , fell violently upon advancing the power of the people by reducing into practice all thofe incroachments , which they had been fo many years gaining . There were at that time certain conquered lands to be divided , befide a great ...
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... peace of the ftate , we cannot conclude less , than that the commons in Greece and Rome ( whatever they may be in other ftates ) were by no means qualified either as profecutors or judges in fuch matters ; and therefore that it would ...
... peace of the ftate , we cannot conclude less , than that the commons in Greece and Rome ( whatever they may be in other ftates ) were by no means qualified either as profecutors or judges in fuch matters ; and therefore that it would ...
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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*.