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... less mo- ment . Many other reasons might be adduced why he was not always at the head of that party whose cause he chiefly espoused ; the chief of which perhaps were , that he wanted that consequence from birth , fortune , and family ...
... less mo- ment . Many other reasons might be adduced why he was not always at the head of that party whose cause he chiefly espoused ; the chief of which perhaps were , that he wanted that consequence from birth , fortune , and family ...
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... less select , but of some consideration , he was admitted to be a most sur- prising man , but unhappily opposed to the reforma- tion of all abuses in government . In a third , he was an ingenious and able writer , but too flowery in his ...
... less select , but of some consideration , he was admitted to be a most sur- prising man , but unhappily opposed to the reforma- tion of all abuses in government . In a third , he was an ingenious and able writer , but too flowery in his ...
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... less lively and bustling than other boys of the same age , but good - natured , communicative of what he knew , and always willing to teach or to learn . # In the family of this gentleman are preserved a series of his letters , at least ...
... less lively and bustling than other boys of the same age , but good - natured , communicative of what he knew , and always willing to teach or to learn . # In the family of this gentleman are preserved a series of his letters , at least ...
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... less than these , wait his domestic life , His darling children , and his virtuous wife , The day's long absence they together mourn , Hang on his neck , and welcome his return ; The cows , departing from the joyful field , Before his ...
... less than these , wait his domestic life , His darling children , and his virtuous wife , The day's long absence they together mourn , Hang on his neck , and welcome his return ; The cows , departing from the joyful field , Before his ...
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... less fond of abstractions and subtilities in the schools , than they are of the more substantial and tangible realities of active life ; and to suit their taste in the former res- pect , he laid in , in addition to an unusually ample ...
... less fond of abstractions and subtilities in the schools , than they are of the more substantial and tangible realities of active life ; and to suit their taste in the former res- pect , he laid in , in addition to an unusually ample ...
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Page 289 - Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Page 170 - So spake the Seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among the faithless faithful only he ; Among innumerable false unmoved. Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Page 273 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Page 303 - But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance ; it is the dissidence of dissent ; and the protestantism of the protestant religion.
Page 299 - In this character of the Americans a love of freedom is the predominating feature, which marks and distinguishes the whole ; and as an ardent is always a jealous affection, your colonies become suspicious, restive, and untractable, whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonies probably than in any other people of the earth...
Page 109 - ... his real power is not shown in the splendour of particular passages, but by the progress of his fable and the tenor of his dialogue ; and he that tries to recommend him by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in Hierocles, who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen.
Page 163 - ... a cabinet so variously inlaid; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tessellated 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.
Page 506 - I impeach him in the name of the people of India, whose laws, rights, and liberties he has subverted ; whose properties he has destroyed, whose country he has laid waste and desolate. I impeach him in the name, and by virtue of those eternal laws of justice, which he has violated. I impeach him in the name of human nature itself, which he has cruelly outraged, injured, and oppressed in both sexes, in every age, rank, situation, and condition of life.
Page 307 - The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your, people miserable ; but whether it is not your interest to make them happy.
Page 306 - Sir, I think you must perceive that I am resolved this day to have nothing at all to do with the question of the right of taxation. Some gentlemen startle, but it is true. I put it totally out of the question. It is less than nothing in my consideration.