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... known that prosecution only gives publicity to a libel , it is therefore not the sort of satisfaction calculated to satisfy the arbitrary ruler of another country , who knows nothing of the indeed , far more alarming , and far more ...
... known that prosecution only gives publicity to a libel , it is therefore not the sort of satisfaction calculated to satisfy the arbitrary ruler of another country , who knows nothing of the indeed , far more alarming , and far more ...
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... known . This is the more amazing , that they must see , that were it not for Britain , the same cruel despotism would cover the whole habitable globe . In fact the pretended friends of liberty are now fighting against freedom ; and the ...
... known . This is the more amazing , that they must see , that were it not for Britain , the same cruel despotism would cover the whole habitable globe . In fact the pretended friends of liberty are now fighting against freedom ; and the ...
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... known impatience and impetuosity of his country- men , and to direct their views to what would make them most happy and prosperous ; but Mr. Grattan that they adhere to party invariably , without considering whether in so doing they are ...
... known impatience and impetuosity of his country- men , and to direct their views to what would make them most happy and prosperous ; but Mr. Grattan that they adhere to party invariably , without considering whether in so doing they are ...
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... known piety of the Roman pon- tiff naturally disarm those who would criticise his conduct ; but nevertheless , it is right to observe , that he has wanted firmness , and has but offered 54 RIGHT HON . HENRY GRATTAN .
... known piety of the Roman pon- tiff naturally disarm those who would criticise his conduct ; but nevertheless , it is right to observe , that he has wanted firmness , and has but offered 54 RIGHT HON . HENRY GRATTAN .
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... known that in every Roman catholic country there was no toleration . There was no toleration in France till the revolution * , and after that there was * Previous to the revolution the protestants in the south of France were fain to go ...
... known that in every Roman catholic country there was no toleration . There was no toleration in France till the revolution * , and after that there was * Previous to the revolution the protestants in the south of France were fain to go ...
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Page 85 - Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do : and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Page 111 - He made an administration so checkered and speckled, he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white; patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans; whigs and tories; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand...
Page 347 - And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep ; A shade that follows wealth or fame, But leaves the wretch to weep...
Page 111 - Mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white; patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans; whigs and tories; treacherous friends and open enemies; that it was indeed a very curious show; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on. The colleagues whom he had assorted at the same boards, stared at each other, and were obliged to ask, "Sir, your name?— Sir you have the advantage of me— Mr. Such-a-one— I beg a thousand...
Page 380 - Christians are men and women, too; both are surely human beings, and it is quite likely that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Page 321 - ... to labour, takes away something from the public stock. The confinement, therefore, of any man in the sloth and darkness of a prison, is a loss to the nation, and no gain to the creditor. For of the multitudes who are pining in those cells of misery, a very small part is suspected of any fraudulent act by which they reta;n what belong to others. The rest are imprisoned by the wantonness of pride, the malignity of revenge, or the acrimony of disappointed expectation — Johnson.
Page 85 - I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits: I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees...
Page 111 - I venture to say, it did so happen, that persons had a single office divided between them, who had never spoke to each other in their lives, until they found themselves, they knew not how, pigging together, heads and points, in the same truckle-bed.
Page 375 - In these two things, viz., an equal indifferency for all truth (I mean the receiving it in the love of it as truth, but not loving it for any other reason before we know it to be true) and in the examination of our principles and not receiving any for such nor building on them...
Page 321 - The prosperity of a people is proportionate to the number of hands and minds usefully employed. To the community, sedition is a fever, corruption is a gangrene, and idleness an atrophy.