The Works ...: With the Author's Life and Character, Notes [etc.] In Eight Volumes, Volume 2A. Donaldson, 1761 - English literature |
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... raise the price of the book ; and the greater fame a writer is in poffeffion of , the more of 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 ...
... raise the price of the book ; and the greater fame a writer is in poffeffion of , the more of 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 ...
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... raised a fpirit they were not able to lay . And this laft circunftance , as cafes have lately stood , may perhaps be worth noting . From what hath been already advanced , several con- clufions may be drawn : If , That a mixed government ...
... raised a fpirit they were not able to lay . And this laft circunftance , as cafes have lately stood , may perhaps be worth noting . From what hath been already advanced , several con- clufions may be drawn : If , That a mixed government ...
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... 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 Perfians at Salamis was owing to his conduct . It seems the people ...
... 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 Perfians at Salamis was owing to his conduct . It seems the people ...
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... raise the latter . And now the greatest employments in the state were , one after another , by laws forcibly enacted by the com- mons , made free to the people , the confulfhip itself , the office of cenfor , that of the quæftors or ...
... raise the latter . And now the greatest employments in the state were , one after another , by laws forcibly enacted by the com- mons , made free to the people , the confulfhip itself , the office of cenfor , that of the quæftors or ...
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... raised as well as those they have escaped to reflect , that they have been authors of a new and wonderful thing in England , which is , for a house of Commons to lofe the univerfal favour of the numbers they represent ; to observe , how ...
... raised as well as those they have escaped to reflect , that they have been authors of a new and wonderful thing in England , which is , for a house of Commons to lofe the univerfal favour of the numbers they represent ; to observe , how ...
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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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