The Works ...: With the Author's Life and Character, Notes [etc.] In Eight Volumes, Volume 2A. Donaldson, 1761 - English literature |
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... proceedings of the house of Commons ; and was published during the recefs of parliament in the fummer of 1701 , with a view to engage them in milder mea- fure when they should meet again . As this time Lewis XIV . was making large ...
... proceedings of the house of Commons ; and was published during the recefs of parliament in the fummer of 1701 , with a view to engage them in milder mea- fure when they should meet again . As this time Lewis XIV . was making large ...
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... proceeding fo far , as to endeavour to force a lady of great virtue : the very crime which gave occafion to the expulfion of the regal power but fixty years before , as this attempt did to that of the Decem viri . The Ephori in Sparta ...
... proceeding fo far , as to endeavour to force a lady of great virtue : the very crime which gave occafion to the expulfion of the regal power but fixty years before , as this attempt did to that of the Decem viri . The Ephori in Sparta ...
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... proceedings as these have popular affemblies engaged in , for want of fixing the due limits of power and privilege . Great changes may indeed be made in a government , yet the form continue , and the balance be held : but large ...
... proceedings as these have popular affemblies engaged in , for want of fixing the due limits of power and privilege . Great changes may indeed be made in a government , yet the form continue , and the balance be held : but large ...
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... proceedings , misapplying or embezzling public funds , ill conduct at sea , and the like , were ho- noured and lamented by their country , as the prefer- vers of it , and have had the veneration of all . ages fince paid justly to their ...
... proceedings , misapplying or embezzling public funds , ill conduct at sea , and the like , were ho- noured and lamented by their country , as the prefer- vers of it , and have had the veneration of all . ages fince paid justly to their ...
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... proceeding upon the affairs of A- thens were no other than the untimely lofs of so great and good a man , yet I could not forbear relating it . Their next great man was Ariftides * . Befides the mighty fervice he had done his country in ...
... proceeding upon the affairs of A- thens were no other than the untimely lofs of so great and good a man , yet I could not forbear relating it . Their next great man was Ariftides * . Befides the mighty fervice he had done his country in ...
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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*.