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... experienced none of the impediments that had heretofore retarded its progress : far from encountering any formidable difficulties , it passed through Parliament almost without opposition ; and one of the greatest and most dis- puted of ...
... experienced none of the impediments that had heretofore retarded its progress : far from encountering any formidable difficulties , it passed through Parliament almost without opposition ; and one of the greatest and most dis- puted of ...
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... experience of 1806 and 1810 , descended to persons in the humblest cir- cumstances , and the furtherest removed by their pursuits from commercial cares . Not only clerks and laborers , but menial servants engaged the little sums which ...
... experience of 1806 and 1810 , descended to persons in the humblest cir- cumstances , and the furtherest removed by their pursuits from commercial cares . Not only clerks and laborers , but menial servants engaged the little sums which ...
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... experience , to adorn also the liter- ature of his age . " Trade and land , " says Mr. Child , knit each to the other , and must wax and wane together , so that it shall never be well with land but trade must feel it , nor ill with ...
... experience , to adorn also the liter- ature of his age . " Trade and land , " says Mr. Child , knit each to the other , and must wax and wane together , so that it shall never be well with land but trade must feel it , nor ill with ...
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... experienced in beginning a school , arises from the expenses of providing the school - room and the master's house . In many places the inhabitants could raise so much a year to keep the thing going , provided it were once started ; and ...
... experienced in beginning a school , arises from the expenses of providing the school - room and the master's house . In many places the inhabitants could raise so much a year to keep the thing going , provided it were once started ; and ...
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... experience of its advantages or pleasures might be expected to stamp a high value on it in all mens ' eyes ; or in the distant tracts of the country , frequented by men barely civilized and acquainted with the blessings of educa- tion ...
... experience of its advantages or pleasures might be expected to stamp a high value on it in all mens ' eyes ; or in the distant tracts of the country , frequented by men barely civilized and acquainted with the blessings of educa- tion ...
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Popular passages
Page 215 - ... for proceeding by martial law, may be revoked and annulled; and that hereafter no commissions of like nature may issue forth to any person or persons whatsoever to be executed as aforesaid, lest by colour of them any of your Majesty's subjects be destroyed or put to death contrary to the laws and franchise of the land.
Page 133 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Page 144 - His is a progress not to be compared with anything like a march ; but it leads to a far more brilliant triumph, and to laurels more imperishable than the destroyer of his species, the scourge of the world, ever won.
Page 35 - The schoolmaster is abroad ! And I trust more to him, armed with his primer, than I do to the soldier in full military array, for upholding and extending the liberties of his country.
Page 23 - It may even be the mace which rests upon that woolsack. What may follow your course of obstinacy, if persisted in, I cannot take upon me to predict, nor do I wish to conjecture. But this I know full well, that, as sure as man is mortal, and to err is human, justice deferred enhances the price...
Page 24 - Rouse not, I beseech you, a peace-loving, but a resolute people, alienate not from your body the affections of a whole empire. As your friend, as the friend of my order, as the friend of my country, as the faithful servant of my sovereign, I counsel you to assist with your utmost efforts in preserving the peace, and upholding and perpetuating the constitution. Therefore, I pray and exhort you not to reject this measure.
Page 144 - pride, pomp, and circumstance of war," — banners flying — shouts rending the air — guns thundering — and martial music pealing, to drown the shrieks of the wounded, and the lamentations for the slain. Not thus the schoolmaster, in his peaceful vocation. He meditates and prepares in secret the plans which are to bless mankind ; he slowly gathers...
Page 137 - Lordships — which was unnecessary, but there are many whom it may be needful to remind — that an advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his client, knows, in the discharge of that office, but one person in the world, THAT CLIENT AND NONE OTHER. To save that client by all expedient means— to protect that client at all hazards and costs to all others, and among others to himself — is the highest and most unquestioned of his duties...
Page 197 - And if the benefactors of mankind, when they rest from their pious labours, shall be permitted to enjoy hereafter, as an appropriate reward of their virtue, the privilege of looking down upon the blessings with which their toils and sufferings have clothed the scene of their former existence, do not vainly imagine that, in a state of exalted purity and wisdom, the founders of mighty dynasties, the conquerors of new empires, or the more vulgar crowd of evildoers, who have sacrificed to their own...
Page 206 - Happily the time is past and gone when bigots could persuade mankind that the lights of philosophy were to be extinguished as dangerous to religion; and when tyrants could proscribe the instructors of the people as enemies to their power.