Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, Volume 92Pub. for J. Hinton., 1793 |
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... seems to be unparalleled in the annals of the world . To our historical narration we have , in courfe , given particular at- tention ; recording each event , in regular order , with dif crimination , exactnefs , and fidelity . A ...
... seems to be unparalleled in the annals of the world . To our historical narration we have , in courfe , given particular at- tention ; recording each event , in regular order , with dif crimination , exactnefs , and fidelity . A ...
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... seem a crime fo much as to conceive the de- fign . You , who are the ardent pro- pagators of novelties not yet proved , refpect this cradle of liberty ; respect the country in which freedom took birth , the country deftined perhaps to ...
... seem a crime fo much as to conceive the de- fign . You , who are the ardent pro- pagators of novelties not yet proved , refpect this cradle of liberty ; respect the country in which freedom took birth , the country deftined perhaps to ...
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... seems as if it was with an intention to recom- mend a fimilar infurrection for the purpofe of difperfing the parliament , and expelling the king , which would leave the nation without any govern- ment at all , and compel them at all ...
... seems as if it was with an intention to recom- mend a fimilar infurrection for the purpofe of difperfing the parliament , and expelling the king , which would leave the nation without any govern- ment at all , and compel them at all ...
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... seem to have attained every object they profeffed to purfue , feem yet to be fo far from being happy ? Ought we not rather to be furprised if the event were otherwife ; if happi- nefs , the most important object of our lives , were to ...
... seem to have attained every object they profeffed to purfue , feem yet to be fo far from being happy ? Ought we not rather to be furprised if the event were otherwife ; if happi- nefs , the most important object of our lives , were to ...
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... seem imperiously to claim . Tronchet protefted against the decree , by which the affembly had declared that the fentence should be paffed by an abfo- lute majority . He demanded the repeal of the decree ; obferving , that as the pe- nal ...
... seem imperiously to claim . Tronchet protefted against the decree , by which the affembly had declared that the fentence should be paffed by an abfo- lute majority . He demanded the repeal of the decree ; obferving , that as the pe- nal ...
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Page 249 - That skins the vice o' the top. Go to your bosom ; Knock there ; and ask your heart what it doth know That's like my brother's fault ; if it confess A natural guiltiness such as is his, Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue Against my brother's life.
Page 410 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Page 267 - It was even by some of those qualities, which we are now apt to blame, that he was fitted for accomplishing the great work which he undertook.
Page 266 - ... shine so conspicuously in every part of his behaviour, that even his enemies must allow him to have possessed them in an eminent degree. To...
Page 8 - Thy mimic soul, O Nymph endear'd, Can well recall what then it heard. Where is thy native simple heart Devote to Virtue, Fancy, Art? Arise, as in that elder time, Warm, energic, chaste, sublime!
Page 345 - Reason thus with life : If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep. A breath thou art (Servile to all the skyey influences) That dost this habitation, where thou keep'st, Hourly afflict.
Page 266 - But these indecencies, of which Luther was guilty, must not be imputed wholly to the violence of his temper. They ought to be charged in part on the manners of the age. Among a rude people, unacquainted with...
Page 266 - These, however, were of such a nature, that they cannot be imputed to malevolence or corruption of heart, but seem to have taken their rise from the same source with many of his virtues. His mind, forcible and vehement in all its operations, roused by...
Page 47 - What is it, but a bargain, which the parts of the government made with each other to divide powers, profits, and privileges? You shall have so much, and I will have the rest; and with respect to the nation, it said, for your share, YOU shall have the right of petitioning.
Page 469 - I have given instructions to those officers to whom it belongs to cause prosecutions to be instituted against all persons who shall, within the cognizance of the Courts of the United States, violate the law of nations with respect to the powers at War or any of them.