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... never have had any footing amongst us . But it is needless to insist upon what is now so generally admitted and so very obvious . In matters of this sort the author of Robinson Crusoe was quite as prejudiced and purblind as the mass of ...
... never have had any footing amongst us . But it is needless to insist upon what is now so generally admitted and so very obvious . In matters of this sort the author of Robinson Crusoe was quite as prejudiced and purblind as the mass of ...
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... never have over - run Gallia , Belgia , Britain , and some part of Germany , and kept them in subjection with only ten legions of soldiers , which was but fifty thousand men ; for we have seen within these late years much greater armies ...
... never have over - run Gallia , Belgia , Britain , and some part of Germany , and kept them in subjection with only ten legions of soldiers , which was but fifty thousand men ; for we have seen within these late years much greater armies ...
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... never raise so great a number . And those great numbers shew that they wanted arts ; for we read that the Athenians a small but learned people baffled and destroyed all the great army of Xerxes , reckoned by some to be seventeen hundred ...
... never raise so great a number . And those great numbers shew that they wanted arts ; for we read that the Athenians a small but learned people baffled and destroyed all the great army of Xerxes , reckoned by some to be seventeen hundred ...
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... never have over - run Gallia , Belgia , Britain , and some part of Germany , and kept them in subjection with only ten legions of soldiers , which was but fifty thousand men ; for we have seen within these late years much greater armies ...
... never have over - run Gallia , Belgia , Britain , and some part of Germany , and kept them in subjection with only ten legions of soldiers , which was but fifty thousand men ; for we have seen within these late years much greater armies ...
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... never a county in England , where the land of the whole county doth not produce a third part more in value than it did within a 100 years , and whosoever will compare these present rents , with what they were then , will find them ...
... never a county in England , where the land of the whole county doth not produce a third part more in value than it did within a 100 years , and whosoever will compare these present rents , with what they were then , will find them ...
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Page 112 - I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: there was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
Page 437 - When the Son of Man shall come in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then shall He sit upon the throne of His glory: and before Him shall be gathered all nations; and He shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats; and He shall set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left. Then shall the King say to them on His right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
Page 480 - We^ the people, ought to be made sensible, that it is not in breaking the laws of commerce, which are the laws of nature, and consequently the laws of God, that we are to place our hope of softening the Divine displeasure to remove any calamity under which we suffer, or which hangs over us.
Page 169 - Were the face of the earth, he says, vacant of other plants, it might be gradually sowed and overspread with one kind only, as for instance with fennel; and were it empty of other inhabitants, it might in a few ages be replenished from one nation only, as for instance with Englishmen.
Page 181 - For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn.
Page 460 - The laboring people are only poor, because they are numerous. Numbers in their nature imply poverty. In a fair distribution among a vast multitude, none can have much. That class of dependent pensioners called the rich, is so extremely small, that if all their throats were cut, and a distribution made of all they consume in a year, it would not give a bit of bread and cheese for one night's supper to those who labor, and who in reality feed both the pensioners and themselves.
Page 437 - I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat : I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink : I was a stranger, and ye took me in : naked, and ye clothed me : I was sick, and ye visited me : I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
Page 486 - As to what is said, in a physical and moral view, against the home consumption of spirits, experience has long since taught me very little to respect the declamations on that subject — whether the thunder of the laws, or the thunder of eloquence, «' is hurled on gin
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Page 466 - ... the benign and wise disposer of all things, who obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual success.