The Works ...: With the Author's Life and Character, Notes [etc.] In Eight Volumes, Volume 2A. Donaldson, 1761 - English literature |
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... those written in conjunction with our friends , Dr Arbuthnot and Mr Gay ; and , laftly , all of this fort compofed fingly by either of thofe hands . The reader is therefore defired to do the fame justice to these our friends , as to us ...
... those written in conjunction with our friends , Dr Arbuthnot and Mr Gay ; and , laftly , all of this fort compofed fingly by either of thofe hands . The reader is therefore defired to do the fame justice to these our friends , as to us ...
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... those who think it an uncontrollable maxim , that power is always fafer lodged in many hands than in one : for if these many hands be made up only from one of the three divifions before mentioned , it is plain from thofe examples al ...
... those who think it an uncontrollable maxim , that power is always fafer lodged in many hands than in one : for if these many hands be made up only from one of the three divifions before mentioned , it is plain from thofe examples al ...
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... those states who are concerned in either ( if at leaft there be any fuch now in the world ) , may , by obferving the means and iffues of former diffenfions , learn whether the caufes are alike in theirs ; and if they find them to be fo ...
... those states who are concerned in either ( if at leaft there be any fuch now in the world ) , may , by obferving the means and iffues of former diffenfions , learn whether the caufes are alike in theirs ; and if they find them to be fo ...
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... those who beft deferved from them .. Now , the circumstance , which makes thefe examples of more importance , is , that this very power of the people in Athens , claimed fo confidently for an inherent right , and insisted on as the ...
... those who beft deferved from them .. Now , the circumstance , which makes thefe examples of more importance , is , that this very power of the people in Athens , claimed fo confidently for an inherent right , and insisted on as the ...
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... those times , as an effect oflicen- tioufnefs , and not of liberty ; a diftinétion , which no multitude , either reprefented or collective , hath been at any time very nice in obferving . However , perhaps this cuftom in a popular state ...
... those times , as an effect oflicen- tioufnefs , and not of liberty ; a diftinétion , which no multitude , either reprefented or collective , hath been at any time very nice in obferving . However , perhaps this cuftom in a popular state ...
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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*.