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... but might , if they thought fit , be usefully employed in waiting on the work , and
fetching flags to his supply as fast as he should want them . This proposition
luckily fell in with a desire the savages expressed to keep themselves at leisure
tlar ...
... but might , if they thought fit , be usefully employed in waiting on the work , and
fetching flags to his supply as fast as he should want them . This proposition
luckily fell in with a desire the savages expressed to keep themselves at leisure
tlar ...
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In pleading they studiously avoid entering into the merits of the cause ; but are
loud , violent , and tedious in dwelling upon all circumstances which are not to
the purpose . For instance , in the case already mentioned : they never desire to ...
In pleading they studiously avoid entering into the merits of the cause ; but are
loud , violent , and tedious in dwelling upon all circumstances which are not to
the purpose . For instance , in the case already mentioned : they never desire to ...
Página 167
The plots in that kingdom are usually the workmanship of those persons who
desire to raise their own characters of profound politicians ; to restore new vigour
to a crazy administration ; to stifle or divert general discontents " ; to fill their
coffers ...
The plots in that kingdom are usually the workmanship of those persons who
desire to raise their own characters of profound politicians ; to restore new vigour
to a crazy administration ; to stifle or divert general discontents " ; to fill their
coffers ...
Página 169
5 I COULD never discover the necessity of suspending any law upon which the
liberty of the most innocent persons , depended ; neither do I think this practice .
hath made the taste of arbitrary power so agreeable , as that we should desire to
...
5 I COULD never discover the necessity of suspending any law upon which the
liberty of the most innocent persons , depended ; neither do I think this practice .
hath made the taste of arbitrary power so agreeable , as that we should desire to
...
Página 187
He that desires royalty does not know the duties which royalty requires ; and by
him that does not know them they can never be fulfilled . Such a man desires
regal authority only to gratisy himself ; but regal authority should be intrusted with
him ...
He that desires royalty does not know the duties which royalty requires ; and by
him that does not know them they can never be fulfilled . Such a man desires
regal authority only to gratisy himself ; but regal authority should be intrusted with
him ...
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Página 35 - tis true, this god did shake ; His coward lips did from their colour fly, And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world Did lose his lustre : I did hear him groan : Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark him and write his speeches in their books, Alas, it cried, 'Give me some drink, Titinius,
Página 318 - Let it pry through the portage of the head. Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it. As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Página 279 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Página 41 - They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; That opened not the house of his prisoners?
Página 291 - Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain.
Página 39 - Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now ? your gambols ? your songs ? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Página 297 - THE first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
Página 336 - Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic. Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell.
Página 236 - I smile, And cry, Content, to that which grieves my heart ; And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions.
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| Título | The Manual of Liberty, Or, Testimonies in Behalf of the Rights of Mankind; Selected from the Best Authorities, in Prose and Verse, and Methodically Arranged |
| Editora | H. D. Symonds, 1795 |
| Original de | Biblioteca Pública de Nova York |
| Digitalizado | 21 set. 2006 |
| Num. págs. | 406 páginas |
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