The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Volume 2A. Donaldson, 1766 |
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... opinions , and acting in concert , begin to enter upon measures for fecuring their properties , which are beft upheld by preparing against invafions from abroad , and maintaining peace at home ; this commences a great council or fenate ...
... opinions , and acting in concert , begin to enter upon measures for fecuring their properties , which are beft upheld by preparing against invafions from abroad , and maintaining peace at home ; this commences a great council or fenate ...
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... opinion to be law , which has always been contested , or perhaps never ftarted at all before fuch an incident brought it on the ftage . Not to confent to the enacting of fuch a law , which has no view befides the general good , unless ...
... opinion to be law , which has always been contested , or perhaps never ftarted at all before fuch an incident brought it on the ftage . Not to confent to the enacting of fuch a law , which has no view befides the general good , unless ...
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... opinion , that the ba lance had begun many years before to lean to the popu- lar fide . But this default was corrected , partly by the principle juft mentioned , of never drawing blood in a tumult ; partly by the warlike genius of the ...
... opinion , that the ba lance had begun many years before to lean to the popu- lar fide . But this default was corrected , partly by the principle juft mentioned , of never drawing blood in a tumult ; partly by the warlike genius of the ...
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... opinions , are ready to comply with general fober refults , though contrary to their own fentiments . What- ever affemblies act by thefe and other methods of the like nature , must be allowed to be exempt from several im- at a nightly ...
... opinions , are ready to comply with general fober refults , though contrary to their own fentiments . What- ever affemblies act by thefe and other methods of the like nature , must be allowed to be exempt from several im- at a nightly ...
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... opinions , will ever have fome general in- fluence upon their minds ; whereas the fpecies of folly and vice are infinite , and fo different in every individual , that they could never procure a majority , if other cor- ruptions did not ...
... opinions , will ever have fome general in- fluence upon their minds ; whereas the fpecies of folly and vice are infinite , and fo different in every individual , that they could never procure a majority , if other cor- ruptions did not ...
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