The Works ...: With the Author's Life and Character, Notes [etc.] In Eight Volumes, Volume 2A. Donaldson, 1761 - English literature |
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... taken to in- terperfe thefe additions in fuch a manner , that scarce any book of confequence can be bought , without pur- chafing fomething unworthy of the author along with it . But in our own country it is ftill worfe : thofe very ...
... taken to in- terperfe thefe additions in fuch a manner , that scarce any book of confequence can be bought , without pur- chafing fomething unworthy of the author along with it . But in our own country it is ftill worfe : thofe very ...
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... taken by the other two , upon every new question that arifes , they will be fure to decide in favour of themselves , talk much of inherent right ; they will nourish up a dormant power , and re- ferve privileges in petto , to exert upon ...
... taken by the other two , upon every new question that arifes , they will be fure to decide in favour of themselves , talk much of inherent right ; they will nourish up a dormant power , and re- ferve privileges in petto , to exert upon ...
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... taken to break or overthrow this balance , which every one of the three parties hath continually endeavoured , as opportunities have ferved ; as might appear from the ftories of most ages and countries : for abfolute power in a ...
... taken to break or overthrow this balance , which every one of the three parties hath continually endeavoured , as opportunities have ferved ; as might appear from the ftories of most ages and countries : for abfolute power in a ...
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... taken , and a miferable flaughter made of the army , whereof hard- ly one ever returned . Some time after this , Alcibiades was recalled upon his own conditions , by the necessities of the people , and made chief commander at fea and ...
... taken , and a miferable flaughter made of the army , whereof hard- ly one ever returned . Some time after this , Alcibiades was recalled upon his own conditions , by the necessities of the people , and made chief commander at fea and ...
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... taken in a fettled ftate , than a steady conftant refolution in those to whom the reft of the balance is intrusted , never to give way so far to popular clamours , as to make the least breach in the conftitution , through which a ...
... taken in a fettled ftate , than a steady conftant refolution in those to whom the reft of the balance is intrusted , never to give way so far to popular clamours , as to make the least breach in the conftitution , through which a ...
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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*.