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... nation as Britain , may appear to fome , not only unfeasonable , but fuperfluous . The writer of this heartily wishes that their view of the matter might be found to be right . He confeffes that he was long difpofed to entertain the ...
... nation as Britain , may appear to fome , not only unfeasonable , but fuperfluous . The writer of this heartily wishes that their view of the matter might be found to be right . He confeffes that he was long difpofed to entertain the ...
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... nation , especially those who , from confcience , are engaged in teftifying against a va- riety of errors , and public corruptions , which they per ceive to be ftiil authorized in human conftitutions , and who have adopted the ...
... nation , especially those who , from confcience , are engaged in teftifying against a va- riety of errors , and public corruptions , which they per ceive to be ftiil authorized in human conftitutions , and who have adopted the ...
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... nation , on what fide these were most likely to be found . He has not knowingly advanced any thing here beyond the just limits and native consequences of these principles , which he fuppofed to have been too firmly ef tablished to be ...
... nation , on what fide these were most likely to be found . He has not knowingly advanced any thing here beyond the just limits and native consequences of these principles , which he fuppofed to have been too firmly ef tablished to be ...
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... nation to have been drawn in , and plunged into hoftilities , for fuch a cause , from the biafs of their own judgment , the natural pro penuity of courts , from the abfurd fuppofition of its be ing the common caufe of crowned heads , or ...
... nation to have been drawn in , and plunged into hoftilities , for fuch a cause , from the biafs of their own judgment , the natural pro penuity of courts , from the abfurd fuppofition of its be ing the common caufe of crowned heads , or ...
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... nation , felt much pain , and began to be filled with jealous apprehenfions . They thought they perceived a fpirit , bursting forth from its concealment , very foreign to that which is the characte riftic of British patriots : they ...
... nation , felt much pain , and began to be filled with jealous apprehenfions . They thought they perceived a fpirit , bursting forth from its concealment , very foreign to that which is the characte riftic of British patriots : they ...
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Page 6 - It looks to me as if I were in a great crisis, not of the affairs of France alone, but of all Europe, perhaps of more than Europe. All circumstances taken together, the French revolution is the most astonishing that has hitherto happened in the world.
Page 92 - For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth, and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
Page 76 - And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: And as one gathereth eggs that are left, Have I gathered all the earth; And there was none that moved the wing, Or opened the mouth, or peeped.
Page 134 - Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
Page 115 - Think of a genius not born in every country, or every time ; a man gifted by nature with a penetrating aquiline eye ; with a judgment prepared with the most extensive erudition ; with an herculean robustness of mind, and nerves not to be broken with labour ; a man who could spend twenty years in one pursuit.
Page 115 - ... from his loins) a man capable of placing in review, after having brought together, from the...
Page 14 - And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a king.
Page 73 - Society requires not only that the passions of individuals should be subjected, but that even in the mass and body, as well as in the individuals, the inclinations of men should frequently be thwarted, their will controlled, and their passions brought into subjection.
Page 14 - Nevertheless, on the very day that Mr. Grey, at the desire of this small society, gave notice of his intended Motion in the House of...
Page 30 - The law is an expression of the will of the community. All citizens have a right to concur, either personally or by their representatives, in its formation. It...