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... doubt , in him , as in all men , and most of all in kings , his fortune wrought upon his nature , and his nature upon his fortune . He attained to the crown , not only from a private fortune , which might endow him with moderation , 38 ...
... doubt , in him , as in all men , and most of all in kings , his fortune wrought upon his nature , and his nature upon his fortune . He attained to the crown , not only from a private fortune , which might endow him with moderation , 38 ...
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... doubt , to cast at the respectable British householders who read these lines by the fireside , and consider themselves pat- terns of propriety ; but , hard as they are , we dare not retract them . The time has come for the stern truth ...
... doubt , to cast at the respectable British householders who read these lines by the fireside , and consider themselves pat- terns of propriety ; but , hard as they are , we dare not retract them . The time has come for the stern truth ...
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... doubt . We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire these rights which they have delivered to our care : we owe it to our posterity not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed . But if it were pos- sible for us to be ...
... doubt . We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire these rights which they have delivered to our care : we owe it to our posterity not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed . But if it were pos- sible for us to be ...
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... doubt not but the rest of their proof will be but reproofs in every honest man's judgment . But let us come to the matter . And here I beseech you , if any of you have brought with you already my judgment by reason of such tales as ye ...
... doubt not but the rest of their proof will be but reproofs in every honest man's judgment . But let us come to the matter . And here I beseech you , if any of you have brought with you already my judgment by reason of such tales as ye ...
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... doubt but that , at any expense to the State , of which they understood nothing , they must pursue their private interests which they understood but too well ? It was an event depending on chance or contingency . It was inevitable ; it ...
... doubt but that , at any expense to the State , of which they understood nothing , they must pursue their private interests which they understood but too well ? It was an event depending on chance or contingency . It was inevitable ; it ...
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Anab appeared arms army battle bear become believe body called carried cause character common continued danger death Demosthenes desire direct doubt earth effect enemy entered existence eyes fall feel fire followed force fortune give ground hand happiness head heart Herodotus honourable hope human interest Italy kind King labour land less light live look manner matter means mind nature never night object observed once opinion pass passion peace person Plato pleasure political present reached reason remains rest river Roman seemed side soldiers soon spirit strong things thought Thucydides town true turned viii whole wisdom Xenophon xviii
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Page 65 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government, — they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Page 99 - MEN fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin and passage to another world, is holy and religious; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religious meditations there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition. You shall read in some of the friars...
Page 284 - Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts...
Page 188 - Then he falls upon them, and beats them fearfully in such sort that they were not able to help themselves, or to turn them upon the floor. This done, he withdraws, and leaves them there to condole their misery, and to mourn under their distress : so all that day they spent their time in nothing but sighs and bitter lamentations.
Page 65 - Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it be once understood, that your government may be one thing, and their privileges another ; that these two things may exist without any mutual relation ; the cement is gone ; the cohesion is loosened ; and every thing hastens to decay and dissolution.
Page 178 - there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving, by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid.
Page 177 - For I remember very well, in a discourse one day with the King, when I happened to say there were several thousand books among us written upon the art of government, it gave him (directly contrary to my intention) a very mean opinion of our understandings. He professed both to abominate and despise all mystery, refinement, and intrigue, either in a prince or a minister. He could not tell what I meant by secrets of state, where an enemy or some rival nation were not in the case.
Page 182 - It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. These, under the name of precedents, they produce as authorities, to justify the most iniquitous opinions; and the judges never fail of directing accordingly.
Page 178 - I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin, that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
Page 12 - ... whom they casually met, without sense, or reason. The clamour and peril grew so excessive, that it made the whole Court amazed, and they did with infinite pains and great difficulty reduce and appease the people, sending troops of soldiers and guards, to cause them to retire into the fields again, where they were watched all this night. I left them pretty quiet, and came home sufficiently weary and broken.