Occasional Essays on Various Subjects: Chiefly Political and Historical; Extracted Partly from the Publick Newspapers, During the Present Reign, and Partly from Tracts Published in the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth, King Charles I., King Charles II, and from Bishop Burnet's History of His Own TimesFrancis Maseres |
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... French Nation were unwilling to dis- charge , ) has since been the principal cause of the dreadful Revolution in France , in 1789 , and of the subsequent destruction of most of the Governments in Europe , by the victories of its present ...
... French Nation were unwilling to dis- charge , ) has since been the principal cause of the dreadful Revolution in France , in 1789 , and of the subsequent destruction of most of the Governments in Europe , by the victories of its present ...
Page ix
... French by Mr. Lally Tolendahl , a distinguished Member of the first French National Assembly . In pages 168 , 169 , 170 , ―176 . NUMBER XII . An Account of the Opinions of the late Adam Smith , LL.D. , the author of the celebrated ...
... French by Mr. Lally Tolendahl , a distinguished Member of the first French National Assembly . In pages 168 , 169 , 170 , ―176 . NUMBER XII . An Account of the Opinions of the late Adam Smith , LL.D. , the author of the celebrated ...
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... French laws of the province should be in force . But the laws of England , which difqualify Papifts from holding places of truft and profit , ought ftill to be conti- nued in the province , though the penal laws fhould be abolished ...
... French laws of the province should be in force . But the laws of England , which difqualify Papifts from holding places of truft and profit , ought ftill to be conti- nued in the province , though the penal laws fhould be abolished ...
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... French gained this decifive advantage , our troops , though inferior in numbers , marched from one end of Virginia to the other , backwards and forwards , with little or no lofs . You will fay this is not conquering the country ; I ...
... French gained this decifive advantage , our troops , though inferior in numbers , marched from one end of Virginia to the other , backwards and forwards , with little or no lofs . You will fay this is not conquering the country ; I ...
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... French by fea ( and , if you had honeft and wife men to direct your naval officers , you would have done it long ago ) , what is to pre- vent our taking poffeflion of the Chesapeak again ? If Great Britain gains the provinces of Georgia ...
... French by fea ( and , if you had honeft and wife men to direct your naval officers , you would have done it long ago ) , what is to pre- vent our taking poffeflion of the Chesapeak again ? If Great Britain gains the provinces of Georgia ...
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Page 204 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys" a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the Earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Page 248 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Page 245 - And when every stone is laid artfully together, it cannot be united into a continuity, it can but be contiguous in this world...
Page 204 - Dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Page 221 - There must be licensing dancers, that no gesture, motion or deportment be taught our youth but what by their allowance shall be thought honest; for such Plato was provided of.
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Page 204 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are...
Page 243 - ... backwardest scholars, of whom God offered to have made us the teachers. Now once again by all concurrence of signs, and by the general instinct of holy...
Page 242 - They are the troublers, they are the dividers of unity, who neglect and permit not others to unite those dissevered pieces which are yet wanting to the body of Truth. To be still searching what we know not by what we know, still closing up truth to truth as we find it, (for all her body is homogeneal, and proportional,) this is the golden rule in theology as well as in arithmetic, and makes up the best harmony in a church ; not the forced and outward union of cold and neutral and inwardly divided...
Page 229 - And how can a man teach with authority, which is the life of teaching, how can he be a doctor in his book as he ought to be, or else had better be silent, whenas all he teaches, all he delivers, is but under the tuition, under the correction of his patriarchal licenser to blot or alter what precisely accords not with the hidebound humour which he calls his judgment?