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Page 103
... owing to the display of national spirit in individuals , which gave confidence not only to the citizens but to the regular military . All saw that the commercial men were ready and able to defend their king and their country , and they ...
... owing to the display of national spirit in individuals , which gave confidence not only to the citizens but to the regular military . All saw that the commercial men were ready and able to defend their king and their country , and they ...
Page 108
... owing * Mr. Hume , a name that yields to none of his own time , and se- cond only to a few in any age . He was the friend of the father of the marquis , who made him his private secretary when he was lord lieutenant of Ireland . to some ...
... owing * Mr. Hume , a name that yields to none of his own time , and se- cond only to a few in any age . He was the friend of the father of the marquis , who made him his private secretary when he was lord lieutenant of Ireland . to some ...
Page 141
... owing to the patriotism of a few noblemen like the duke , and the native loyalty and bravery of * That there is nothing new under the sun is generally acknow- ledged , yet the admirers of Buonaparte think him a novelty - that no man was ...
... owing to the patriotism of a few noblemen like the duke , and the native loyalty and bravery of * That there is nothing new under the sun is generally acknow- ledged , yet the admirers of Buonaparte think him a novelty - that no man was ...
Page 162
... owing to the excellent views of the Emperor Alexander ; the honourable principles of the ambassador himself ; and the fair intentions , and earnest wishes of the British govern- ment , to ensure the safety of Europe , in conjunction ...
... owing to the excellent views of the Emperor Alexander ; the honourable principles of the ambassador himself ; and the fair intentions , and earnest wishes of the British govern- ment , to ensure the safety of Europe , in conjunction ...
Page 169
... owing , for the tide of events has turned ; but we must allow that all the affairs , internal and external , that depend on them , go on fully as well . There is as much firmness , and less inflexibility , than in the time of Mr. Per ...
... owing , for the tide of events has turned ; but we must allow that all the affairs , internal and external , that depend on them , go on fully as well . There is as much firmness , and less inflexibility , than in the time of Mr. Per ...
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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.