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... because you are the fon of a father highly celebrated for his erudition and his piety ; and because all good men think you good ; and laftly , because you hate the bad . hate the bad . With fuch perfons fince it has also been my lot to ...
... because you are the fon of a father highly celebrated for his erudition and his piety ; and because all good men think you good ; and laftly , because you hate the bad . hate the bad . With fuch perfons fince it has also been my lot to ...
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... because it gives plea- fure to you though it is a lofs to me ; and I admire that felicity of genius , which can fo readily leave the factions or the diverfions of the city for contemplations the most serious and fublime . I fee not what ...
... because it gives plea- fure to you though it is a lofs to me ; and I admire that felicity of genius , which can fo readily leave the factions or the diverfions of the city for contemplations the most serious and fublime . I fee not what ...
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... because the style fhould correfpond with the nature of the narrative , you ask me how a writer of hiftory may beft attain that excellence . My opinion is , that he who would de- scribe actions and events in a way suited to their dignity ...
... because the style fhould correfpond with the nature of the narrative , you ask me how a writer of hiftory may beft attain that excellence . My opinion is , that he who would de- scribe actions and events in a way suited to their dignity ...
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... because I saw that your letter , fo full of erudition , left me less oc- cafion for fending you my advice ( which I believe that you defire more out of compliment to me than of any benefit to yourself ) than my congratulations . First ...
... because I saw that your letter , fo full of erudition , left me less oc- cafion for fending you my advice ( which I believe that you defire more out of compliment to me than of any benefit to yourself ) than my congratulations . First ...
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... because I believe that he is already on his voyage , and has in his company a perfon in the office of fecretary , which you are anxious to obtain . But the bearer of this is on the eve of his departure . Adieu . Westminster , Dec. 18 ...
... because I believe that he is already on his voyage , and has in his company a perfon in the office of fecretary , which you are anxious to obtain . But the bearer of this is on the eve of his departure . Adieu . Westminster , Dec. 18 ...
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Página 267 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Página 115 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Página 312 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Página 287 - He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian.
Página 107 - But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow a dolorous or a jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say, or what he shall conceal.
Página 313 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Página 113 - God rarely bestowed, but yet to some, though most abuse, in every nation ; and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility ; to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune ; to celebrate, in glorious and lofty hymns, the throne and equipage of God's almightiness...
Página 300 - Nor is it to the common people less than a reproach; for if we be so jealous over them, as that we dare not trust them with an English pamphlet, what do we but censure them for a giddy, vicious, and ungrounded people; in such a sick and weak estate of faith and discretion, as to be able to take nothing down but through the pipe of a licenser?
Página 334 - When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
Página 311 - And when every stone is laid artfully together, it cannot be united into a continuity, it can but be contiguous in this world...