Occasional Essays on Various Subjects: Chiefly Political and Historical; Extracted Partly from the Publick Newspapers, During the Present Reign, and Partly from Tracts Published in the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth, King Charles I., King Charles II, and from Bishop Burnet's History of His Own TimesFrancis Maseres |
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... fubjects on account of a refolution of the Commons House of parliament paffed on the 17th day of February , in the year of our Lord 1769 , declaring John Wilkes , Efq . who had , on the 28th day of March , in the year 1768 , been duly ...
... fubjects on account of a refolution of the Commons House of parliament paffed on the 17th day of February , in the year of our Lord 1769 , declaring John Wilkes , Efq . who had , on the 28th day of March , in the year 1768 , been duly ...
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... fub- jects , ) to enlarge the former extent of the province of Que- beck , as fettled by the proclamation of October , 1763 , by the addition of the coaft of Labrador , which , by the faid proclamation , was made part of the government ...
... fub- jects , ) to enlarge the former extent of the province of Que- beck , as fettled by the proclamation of October , 1763 , by the addition of the coaft of Labrador , which , by the faid proclamation , was made part of the government ...
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... fubjects the former French laws of the province should be in force . But the laws of England , which disqualify Papists from holding places of truft and profit , ought ftill to be conti- nued in the province , though the penal laws ...
... fubjects the former French laws of the province should be in force . But the laws of England , which disqualify Papists from holding places of truft and profit , ought ftill to be conti- nued in the province , though the penal laws ...
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... fubjects refiding in those provinces of North - America , in which affemblies of the people are established , until the faid provinces fhall have been permitted to fend reprefentatives to the British Parliament : excepting only fuch ...
... fubjects refiding in those provinces of North - America , in which affemblies of the people are established , until the faid provinces fhall have been permitted to fend reprefentatives to the British Parliament : excepting only fuch ...
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... fubjects of his Majefty in America who had preserved their allegiance to him , poffeffed a fingle foot of land throughout all the thirteen revolted colonies . But now of late the for- tune of the war has begun to change . A ray of ...
... fubjects of his Majefty in America who had preserved their allegiance to him , poffeffed a fingle foot of land throughout all the thirteen revolted colonies . But now of late the for- tune of the war has begun to change . A ray of ...
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Page 194 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys" a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the Earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Page 238 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Page 206 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised, and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather ; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.
Page 235 - And when every stone is laid artfully together, it cannot be united into a continuity, it can but be contiguous in this world...
Page 206 - As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary...
Page 68 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...
Page 423 - Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall; and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
Page 194 - ... and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
Page 211 - There must be licensing dancers, that no gesture, motion or deportment be taught our youth but what by their allowance shall be thought honest; for such Plato was provided of.
Page 235 - When they have branched themselves out, saith he, small enough into parties and partitions, then will be our time. Fool ! he sees not the firm root, out of which we all grow, though into branches: nor will beware until he see our small divided maniples cutting through at every angle of his ill-united and unwieldy brigade.