The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 1Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson Munroe and Francis, 1804 Vols. 3-4 include appendix: "The Political cabinet." |
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... progress of the arts .... and the state of publick concerns ; and be so far a politician , as to be a judicious biographer of the great , and a persecutor of the ambitious . Versatile , without being unprincipled , he will sometimes ...
... progress of the arts .... and the state of publick concerns ; and be so far a politician , as to be a judicious biographer of the great , and a persecutor of the ambitious . Versatile , without being unprincipled , he will sometimes ...
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... progress towards improvement in others , and fo much indulgence for us . The pigeon hearted menials of principle will not only rail at us for pretending to greater wisdom than the law , in preferring our own decifions to those of the ...
... progress towards improvement in others , and fo much indulgence for us . The pigeon hearted menials of principle will not only rail at us for pretending to greater wisdom than the law , in preferring our own decifions to those of the ...
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... progress of my work it will be discovered , that I have not joined myself to that frantic crew of Deifts , who would proftrate every institution , human or divine . Though I dedicate my book to a republican , it is not the magistrate ...
... progress of my work it will be discovered , that I have not joined myself to that frantic crew of Deifts , who would proftrate every institution , human or divine . Though I dedicate my book to a republican , it is not the magistrate ...
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... progress among us , as it cannot be expected that the same correct taste should prevail here , as in the elder focieties of the world , where popular refinement is the refult of luxury , and luxury is the offspring of extreme wealth and ...
... progress among us , as it cannot be expected that the same correct taste should prevail here , as in the elder focieties of the world , where popular refinement is the refult of luxury , and luxury is the offspring of extreme wealth and ...
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... progress , when my father fell fick and died . He had not acquired wisdom from his misfortunes , but contin- ued wafting his time in unprofitable pursuits , to the great detri- ment of his bufinefs . He loved drink for the fake of ...
... progress , when my father fell fick and died . He had not acquired wisdom from his misfortunes , but contin- ued wafting his time in unprofitable pursuits , to the great detri- ment of his bufinefs . He loved drink for the fake of ...
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