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Page 22
... tories rose on every shore . Their money- to poetry ; nor was it long before a poet ap- changers set their tables in every city . Manu - peared who knew how to employ them . Early factures flourished . Banks were established . in the ...
... tories rose on every shore . Their money- to poetry ; nor was it long before a poet ap- changers set their tables in every city . Manu - peared who knew how to employ them . Early factures flourished . Banks were established . in the ...
Page 52
... tory . to hear with delight of strange beasts , and birds , and trees ; of dwarfs , and giants , and cannibals ; of gods whose very names it was impiety to utter ; of ancient dynasties which had left behind them monuments surpassing all ...
... tory . to hear with delight of strange beasts , and birds , and trees ; of dwarfs , and giants , and cannibals ; of gods whose very names it was impiety to utter ; of ancient dynasties which had left behind them monuments surpassing all ...
Page 54
... tory were written thus , the Bodleian library would not contain the occurrences of a week . What is told in the fullest and most accurate annals bears an infinitely small proportion to what is suppressed . The difference between the ...
... tory were written thus , the Bodleian library would not contain the occurrences of a week . What is told in the fullest and most accurate annals bears an infinitely small proportion to what is suppressed . The difference between the ...
Page 64
... tories of great empires , written by men of eminent ability , lie unread on the shelves of ostentatious libraries . The writers of history seem to entertain an aristocratical contempt for the writers of me- moirs . They think it beneath ...
... tories of great empires , written by men of eminent ability , lie unread on the shelves of ostentatious libraries . The writers of history seem to entertain an aristocratical contempt for the writers of me- moirs . They think it beneath ...
Page 68
... Tory creed , those particularly which relate to re- strictions on worship and on trade , are adored by squires and rectors , in Pitt Clubs , under the name of a minister , who was as bad a repre- sentative of the system which has been ...
... Tory creed , those particularly which relate to re- strictions on worship and on trade , are adored by squires and rectors , in Pitt Clubs , under the name of a minister , who was as bad a repre- sentative of the system which has been ...
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