The Works ...: With the Author's Life and Character, Notes [etc.] In Eight Volumes, Volume 2A. Donaldson, 1761 - English literature |
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... present age ; not our ftudies , but our follies ; not our works , but our idleneffes . Some comfort however it is , that all of them are in- nocent , and most of them , flight as they are , had yet a moral tendency ; either to foften ...
... present age ; not our ftudies , but our follies ; not our works , but our idleneffes . Some comfort however it is , that all of them are in- nocent , and most of them , flight as they are , had yet a moral tendency ; either to foften ...
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... present miniftry is an artificial calumny , raised and spread against the conviction of the inventors , pretended to be believed only by those who abhor the conftitution in church and ftate ; an obdurate faction , who compass heaven and ...
... present miniftry is an artificial calumny , raised and spread against the conviction of the inventors , pretended to be believed only by those who abhor the conftitution in church and ftate ; an obdurate faction , who compass heaven and ...
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... present Majesty came to the crown ; when by the weakness or corruption of a certain minifter , fince dead , an act of parliament was obtained for the Scots , which gave them leave to arm themfelves † ; and fo the • The author's memory ...
... present Majesty came to the crown ; when by the weakness or corruption of a certain minifter , fince dead , an act of parliament was obtained for the Scots , which gave them leave to arm themfelves † ; and fo the • The author's memory ...
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... . And if we interpret the infinuation he makes , according to his own mind , the deftruction of those people must be in puted to the present ministry . I am I am sometimes , in charity , difpofed to hope OF THE WHIGS . 85.
... . And if we interpret the infinuation he makes , according to his own mind , the deftruction of those people must be in puted to the present ministry . I am I am sometimes , in charity , difpofed to hope OF THE WHIGS . 85.
Page 154
... present flate of affairs [ in vol . 4. ] . Thefe are a courfe of writings not to be confidered in the light of occafionak pamphlets , or little paltry journals , thrown into the world by fome hackney jade , in the defence of corruption ...
... present flate of affairs [ in vol . 4. ] . Thefe are a courfe of writings not to be confidered in the light of occafionak pamphlets , or little paltry journals , thrown into the world by fome hackney jade , in the defence of corruption ...
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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*.