Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects in Two Volumes: Essays, moral, political, and literacy, Volume 1James Clarke, 1809 - 572 pages |
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... says he , our magistrates , having entire impunity , would plunder no more than would satisfy their own rapacious- ness ; whereas , at present , they must also satisfy that of their judges , and of all the great men in Rome , of whose ...
... says he , our magistrates , having entire impunity , would plunder no more than would satisfy their own rapacious- ness ; whereas , at present , they must also satisfy that of their judges , and of all the great men in Rome , of whose ...
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... says that politician , that such sudden conquests , as those of Alexander , should be possessed so peaceably by his successors , and that the Persians , during all the confusions and civil wars among the Greeks , never made the smallest ...
... says that politician , that such sudden conquests , as those of Alexander , should be possessed so peaceably by his successors , and that the Persians , during all the confusions and civil wars among the Greeks , never made the smallest ...
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... say , if our constitution does in any degre de- serve these eulogies , it would never have suffered a wick- ed and weak minister to govern triumphantly for a course of twenty years , when opposed by the greatest geniuses in the nation ...
... say , if our constitution does in any degre de- serve these eulogies , it would never have suffered a wick- ed and weak minister to govern triumphantly for a course of twenty years , when opposed by the greatest geniuses in the nation ...
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... say , there are few wise men in the world , is really to say nothing ; since it is only by their scarcity that they merit that appellation . Were the lowest of our species as wise as Tully , or Lord Bacon , we should still have reason to ...
... say , there are few wise men in the world , is really to say nothing ; since it is only by their scarcity that they merit that appellation . Were the lowest of our species as wise as Tully , or Lord Bacon , we should still have reason to ...
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... say I , as insensible to anger as he pretends to be to friendship ? And does injury and wrong no more affect him than kindness or benefits ? Impos- sible : He does not know himself : He has forgotten the movements of his heart ; or ...
... say I , as insensible to anger as he pretends to be to friendship ? And does injury and wrong no more affect him than kindness or benefits ? Impos- sible : He does not know himself : He has forgotten the movements of his heart ; or ...
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