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... such im- portance . Yet with all proper deference to a name so justly celebrated , I will take the freedom of ob- serving that he has succeeded better as a scholar than a poet ; having fallen below the strength , MARMOR NORFOLCIENSE .
... such im- portance . Yet with all proper deference to a name so justly celebrated , I will take the freedom of ob- serving that he has succeeded better as a scholar than a poet ; having fallen below the strength , MARMOR NORFOLCIENSE .
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... better judges . Our inability to fix the age of this inscription necessarily infers our ignorance of its author , with relation to whom many controversies may be started worthy of the most profound learn- ing , and most indefatigable ...
... better judges . Our inability to fix the age of this inscription necessarily infers our ignorance of its author , with relation to whom many controversies may be started worthy of the most profound learn- ing , and most indefatigable ...
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... better days ; days so fruitful of happy writers , that no princely virtue can shine in vain . Our monarchs are surrounded with refined spirits , so penetrating that they frequently discover in their masters great qualities invisible to ...
... better days ; days so fruitful of happy writers , that no princely virtue can shine in vain . Our monarchs are surrounded with refined spirits , so penetrating that they frequently discover in their masters great qualities invisible to ...
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... better prepared than any other man for the perusal of these ambiguous expressions . And that , besides , the explication of this stone , being a task which nothing could surmount but the most acute penetration joined with indefa ...
... better prepared than any other man for the perusal of these ambiguous expressions . And that , besides , the explication of this stone , being a task which nothing could surmount but the most acute penetration joined with indefa ...
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... better pleased with what they could snatch from their neighbours , than what they had of their own . In this disposition to reciprocal invasion a cause of dispute never could be wanting . The forests and deserts of America are without ...
... better pleased with what they could snatch from their neighbours , than what they had of their own . In this disposition to reciprocal invasion a cause of dispute never could be wanting . The forests and deserts of America are without ...
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Seite 186 - That they are entitled to life, liberty, and property, and they have never ceded to any sovereign power whatever, a right to dispose of either without their consent.
Seite 189 - But, from the necessity of the case, and a regard to the mutual interest of both countries, we cheerfully consent to the operation of such acts of the British parliament, as are bona fide, restrained to the regulation of our external commerce, for the purpose of securing the commercial advantages of the whole empire to the mother country, and the commercial benefits of its respective members ; excluding every idea of taxation internal or external, for raising a revenue on the subjects in America,...
Seite 215 - We are told, that the subjection of Americans may tend to the diminution of our own liberties : an event, which none but very perspicacious politicians are able to foresee. If slavery be thus fatally contagious, how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ? But let us interrupt a while this dream of conquest, settlement, and supremacy.
Seite 262 - I sat down on a bank, such as a writer of romance might have delighted to feign. I had, indeed, no trees to whisper over my head, but a clear rivulet streamed at my feet. The day was calm, the air soft, and all was rudeness, silence, and solitude. Before me, and on either side, were high hills, which, by hindering the eye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well, I know not ; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration.
Seite 180 - In sovereignty there are no gradations. There may be limited royalty, there may be limited consulship ; but there can be no limited government. Thera must in every society be some power or other from which there is no appeal, which admits no restrictions, which pervades the whole mass of the community, regulates and adjusts all subordination, enacts laws or repeals them, erects or annuls judicatures, extends or contracts privileges, exempt itself from question or control, and bounded only by physical...
Seite 273 - Out of one of the beds on which we were to repose started up, at our entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge.
Seite 404 - 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...
Seite 77 - In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness; and, in this comparison, our officers seem to lose what our soldiers gain. I know not any reason for supposing that the English officers are less willing than the French to lead ; but it is, I think, universally allowed, that the English soldiers are more willing to follow.
Seite 323 - ... dignity and hereditary power. The stranger, whose money buys him preference, considers himself as paying for all that he has, and is indifferent about the Laird's honour or safety. The commodiousness of money is indeed great ; but there are some advantages which money cannot buy, and which therefore no wise man will by the love of money be tempted to forego.
Seite 402 - He who has not made the experiment, or who is not accustomed to require rigorous accuracy from himself, will scarcely believe how much a few hours take from certainty of knowledge and distinctness of imagery ; how the succession of objects will be broken, how separate parts will be confused, and how many particular features and discriminations will be compressed and conglobated into one gross and general idea.