Christian PoliticsLongman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806 - 445 pages |
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Page 10
... perhaps come to give law to the whole house . What Themistocles observed jestingly of his son , that " he was chief of the Greeks , by governing his mother , who governed him , who governed all the rest , " is too often realized within ...
... perhaps come to give law to the whole house . What Themistocles observed jestingly of his son , that " he was chief of the Greeks , by governing his mother , who governed him , who governed all the rest , " is too often realized within ...
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... perhaps suffer many defeats , before he falls into his proper rank . Hence too arise most of those wars and violent commotions which so often agitate the world ; while , like Pom- pey and Cæsar , one prince or state will not endure a ...
... perhaps suffer many defeats , before he falls into his proper rank . Hence too arise most of those wars and violent commotions which so often agitate the world ; while , like Pom- pey and Cæsar , one prince or state will not endure a ...
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... perhaps pride himself as an independent country gentleman ; or , if destitute of all external advantage , and conscious of none within , he will still imagine some latent excellence , which , if happily brought to light , would elevate ...
... perhaps pride himself as an independent country gentleman ; or , if destitute of all external advantage , and conscious of none within , he will still imagine some latent excellence , which , if happily brought to light , would elevate ...
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... perhaps still more in the liberty generally taken with the good name of the absent in our ordinary inter- course ; when to indulge a sally of wit , or a momentary triumph of vanity , to gratify a * See Plutarch . sudden emotion of envy ...
... perhaps still more in the liberty generally taken with the good name of the absent in our ordinary inter- course ; when to indulge a sally of wit , or a momentary triumph of vanity , to gratify a * See Plutarch . sudden emotion of envy ...
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... perhaps unwise restrictions were laid upon it , the corruption of authors will be sure to make it an engine of obscenity , as well as of other mischiefs ; at least , in a covert and delicate way , which being less shocking to our moral ...
... perhaps unwise restrictions were laid upon it , the corruption of authors will be sure to make it an engine of obscenity , as well as of other mischiefs ; at least , in a covert and delicate way , which being less shocking to our moral ...
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