| James Anderson - Books, Reviews - 1792 - 390 pages
...statesmen, relinquifhing their natural right of empire, approach the royal craddle with ben, vOL. x. X t ded knees, and protestations of inviolable fidelity ? Satire and declamation may paint these obvious topics in the most dazzling colours ; but our more serious thoughts will respect an useful invention,... | |
| Great Britain - 1821 - 688 pages
...father's decease, the property of a nation, like that of a drove of oxen, descends to his infant son, as yet unknown to mankind and to himself; and that the...fidelity? Satire and declamation may paint these obvious topics in the most dazzling colours; but our more serious thoughts will respect a useful prejudice,... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1826 - 468 pages
...property rent ЛЗГ" of a nation, like that of a drove of oxen, descends toculc' his infant son, as yet unknown to mankind and to himself ; and that the bravest warriors and the wisest statesmen, relinII" See the lives of Agrícola, Vespasian, Trajan, Severus, and his three competitors ; and indeed... | |
| Pierre François Merlet - French language - 1837 - 314 pages
...father's decease, the property of a nation, like that of a drove of oxen, descends to his infant son, as yet unknown to mankind and to himself; and that the...fidelity? Satire and declamation may paint these obvious topics in the most dazzling colours, but our more serions thoughts will respect a useful prejudice,... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1840 - 564 pages
...father's decease, the property of a nation, like that of a drove of oxen, descends to his infant son, as yet unknown to mankind and to himself; and that the...bended knees and protestations of inviolable fidelity 1 Satire and declamation may paint these obvious topics in the most dazzling colours, but our more... | |
| 1846 - 780 pages
...father's decease, the property of a nation, like that of a drove of oxen, descends to his infant son, as yet unknown to mankind and to himself ; and that the...fidelity ? Satire and declamation may paint these obvious topics in the most dazzling colours ; but our more serious thoughts will respect a useful prejudice,... | |
| George Jacob Holyoake - Debates and debating - 1853 - 160 pages
...father's decease, the property of a nation, like that of a drove of oxen, descends to his infant son, as yet unknown to mankind and to himself ; and that the...fidelity ! Satire and declamation may paint these obvious topics in the most dazzling colours, but our serious thoughts will respect a useful prejudice, that... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 pages
...father's decease, the property of a nation, like that of a drove of oxen, descends to his infant son, as yet unknown to mankind and to himself, and that the...fidelity ? Satire and declamation may paint these obvious topics in the most dazzling colours, but our more serious thoughts will respect a useful prejudice... | |
| William Smyth - France - 1855 - 590 pages
...father's decease, the property of a nation, like that of a drove of oxen, descends to this infant son, as yet unknown to mankind and to himself; and that the...fidelity ? Satire and declamation may paint these obvious topics in the most dazzling colours, but our more serious thoughts will respect an useful prejudice,... | |
| Pierre François Merlet - 1858 - 188 pages
...father's decease the property of a nation, like that of a drove of oxen, descends to his infant son, as yet unknown to mankind and to himself; and that the...natural right to empire, approach the royal cradle vtith bended knees3 and protestations 'of inviolable fidelity? Satire and declamation may4 paint these... | |
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