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... allowed to be more fo . Yet Plutarch , in his treatise on oracles , has maintained his doctrine by fuch powerful teftimonies , that if any regard is to be paid to his veracity , fome attention fhould be given to his opinion . We fhall ...
... allowed to be more fo . Yet Plutarch , in his treatise on oracles , has maintained his doctrine by fuch powerful teftimonies , that if any regard is to be paid to his veracity , fome attention fhould be given to his opinion . We fhall ...
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... allowed to obferve , that it has no folid foundation in history . The Abbé de Vertot , and the Prefident Montefquieu gave in- advertently into this opinion , and fubfequent writers have con- fently adopted it . The grounds , upon which ...
... allowed to obferve , that it has no folid foundation in history . The Abbé de Vertot , and the Prefident Montefquieu gave in- advertently into this opinion , and fubfequent writers have con- fently adopted it . The grounds , upon which ...
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... allowed pay and pro- vifions , and could , when they were grown up , recommend them for commiffions . They were happy if by the most servile and fubmiffive behaviour they could gain his confidence and favour . Every perfon capable of ...
... allowed pay and pro- vifions , and could , when they were grown up , recommend them for commiffions . They were happy if by the most servile and fubmiffive behaviour they could gain his confidence and favour . Every perfon capable of ...
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... allowed the facts , but according to Voltaire himself , abfurdly afcribed them to magic ; whereas mo- dern Infidels affert , that a miracle never was or can be wrought . Voltaire . When we are hard urged by our adverfaries , we tell ...
... allowed the facts , but according to Voltaire himself , abfurdly afcribed them to magic ; whereas mo- dern Infidels affert , that a miracle never was or can be wrought . Voltaire . When we are hard urged by our adverfaries , we tell ...
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... allowed for rolling , and two for horfe hoeing , with fome spare time from the harrowing team , which it must have , will anfwer all carting of that fort , and much other . I am the more particular in this part of my scheme , as the in ...
... allowed for rolling , and two for horfe hoeing , with fome spare time from the harrowing team , which it must have , will anfwer all carting of that fort , and much other . I am the more particular in this part of my scheme , as the in ...
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Page 294 - And when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth.
Page 374 - It is not in the Hercules, nor in the Gladiator, nor in the Apollo ; but in that form which is taken from all, and which partakes equally of the activity of the Gladiator, of the delicacy of the Apollo, and of the muscular strength of the Hercules.
Page 268 - But who the melodies of morn can tell ? — The wild brook babbling down the mountain side ; The lowing herd ; the sheepfold's simple bell ; The pipe of early shepherd dim descried In the lone valley ; echoing far and wide, The clamorous horn along the cliffs above ; The hollow murmur of the ocean-tide ; The hum of bees ; the linnet's lay of love ; And the full choir that wakes the universal grove.
Page 190 - ... policy. Sad experience and a large mind taught that great man, the President De Thou, this doctrine. Let any man read the many admirable things which, though a Papist, he hath...
Page 265 - Supremely blest, if to their portion fall Health, competence, and peace. Nor higher aim Had he whose simple tale these artless lines proclaim.
Page 329 - Of style and sentiment they take no cognizance. They admire him for virtues like their own, for contempt of order and violence of outrage, for rage of defamation and audacity of falsehood.
Page 313 - From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
Page 372 - Phidias (the favourite artist of antiquity), to illustrate their assertions. As if they could not sufficiently express their admiration of his genius by what they knew, they have recourse to poetical enthusiasm. They call it inspiration ; a gift from heaven. The...
Page 338 - The discretion of a judge is the law of tyrants: it is always unknown ; it is different in different men; it is casual, and depends upon constitution, temper, and passion. In the best, it is oftentimes caprice ; in the worst, it is every vice, folly, and passion to which human nature is liable.
Page 265 - AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ; Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war ; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale remote has pined alone, Then dropt into the grave, unpitied and unknown...