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... kind , is dangerous ; that ill conclusions can only flow from false pro- positions ; and that , to know whether any proposition be true or false , it is a preposterous method to examine it by its apparent consequences . These were the ...
... kind , is dangerous ; that ill conclusions can only flow from false pro- positions ; and that , to know whether any proposition be true or false , it is a preposterous method to examine it by its apparent consequences . These were the ...
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... kind ; and the same tree , which in its flourishing state produced them berries , in its decay gave them an habitation . The mutual desires of the sexes uniting their bodies and affections , and the children which are the results of ...
... kind ; and the same tree , which in its flourishing state produced them berries , in its decay gave them an habitation . The mutual desires of the sexes uniting their bodies and affections , and the children which are the results of ...
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... kind or other . To this the vulgar will always be voluntary slaves ; and even those of a rank of understanding superior , will now and then involun- tarily feel its influence . It is therefore of the deepest con- cernment to us to be ...
... kind or other . To this the vulgar will always be voluntary slaves ; and even those of a rank of understanding superior , will now and then involun- tarily feel its influence . It is therefore of the deepest con- cernment to us to be ...
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... kind began first to form themselves into parties and com- binations , the first effect of the combination , and indeed the end for which it seems purposely formed , and best calcu- lated , is their mutual destruction . All ancient ...
... kind began first to form themselves into parties and com- binations , the first effect of the combination , and indeed the end for which it seems purposely formed , and best calcu- lated , is their mutual destruction . All ancient ...
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... kind of government , human na- ture is not only abused , and insulted , but it is actually de- graded and sunk into a species of brutality . The consider- ation of this made Mr. Locke say , with great justice , that a government of this ...
... kind of government , human na- ture is not only abused , and insulted , but it is actually de- graded and sunk into a species of brutality . The consider- ation of this made Mr. Locke say , with great justice , that a government of this ...
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Page 67 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up: It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice...
Page 363 - We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. By adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire; and have made the most extensive, and the only honorable conquests; not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness, of the human race.
Page 331 - In no country, perhaps, in the world is the law so general a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful, and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to the Congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavor to obtain some smattering in that science.
Page 259 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Page 338 - ... direct and immediate power of the colonies to resist our violence as very formidable. In this, however, I may be mistaken. But when I consider that we have colonies for no purpose but to be serviceable to us, it seems to my poor understanding a little preposterous to make them unserviceable in order to keep them obedient. It is, in truth, nothing more than the old and, as I thought, exploded problem of tyranny, which proposes to beggar its subjects into submission.
Page 67 - Who hath sent out the wild ass free? Or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass? Whose house I have made the wilderness, And the barren land his dwelling. He scorneth the multitude of the city, Neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. The range of the mountains is his pasture, And he searcheth after every green thing.
Page 341 - A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk : the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire.
Page 67 - Of the passion caused by the sublime The passion caused by the great and sublime in nature, when those causes operate most powerfully, is Astonishment; and astonishment is that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror. In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its object, that it cannot entertain any other, nor by consequence reason on that object which employs it.
Page 326 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis'e Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Page 67 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.