Lacon; Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think. From the 8th London EdLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823 - 267 pages |
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Page vii
... whole superincumbent pressure of error and of prejudice , whatever be its weight ; and the effects will be proportionate to the resistance . But the moral earthquake , unlike the natural , while it convulses the nations , reforms them ...
... whole superincumbent pressure of error and of prejudice , whatever be its weight ; and the effects will be proportionate to the resistance . But the moral earthquake , unlike the natural , while it convulses the nations , reforms them ...
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... whole four are all ultimately resolvible into power . But in the just appreciation of this power , men are too apt to be deceived . Nothing , for instance , is more common than to see rank or riches preferred to talent , and yet nothing ...
... whole four are all ultimately resolvible into power . But in the just appreciation of this power , men are too apt to be deceived . Nothing , for instance , is more common than to see rank or riches preferred to talent , and yet nothing ...
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... whole tribe have no objection to present pay and pre- sent praise . But Lord Burleigh is not the only statesman who has thought one hundred pounds too much for a song , though sung by Spencer ; although Oliver Goldsmith is the only poet ...
... whole tribe have no objection to present pay and pre- sent praise . But Lord Burleigh is not the only statesman who has thought one hundred pounds too much for a song , though sung by Spencer ; although Oliver Goldsmith is the only poet ...
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... whole of them . * XXIV . AVARICE begets more vices than Priam did chil- dren , and like Priam survives them all . It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead ; and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven ...
... whole of them . * XXIV . AVARICE begets more vices than Priam did chil- dren , and like Priam survives them all . It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead ; and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven ...
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... whole of it , since if Servetus had been a Mo- hammedan , he would not have been burnt by Calvin . There are two parties therefore , that will form a rent in the Babe ! building of Reform , which unlike that of the temple , will not be ...
... whole of it , since if Servetus had been a Mo- hammedan , he would not have been burnt by Calvin . There are two parties therefore , that will form a rent in the Babe ! building of Reform , which unlike that of the temple , will not be ...
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