Crito: Or, Essays on Various Subjects. ...Messrs. Dodsley; Becket and de Hondt; White; Payne; and Cooke, 1767 |
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... hold , in our times , of thofe , who have not yet had the honour of making their public entry by regular birth , into this our virtuous and happy state of humanity . Were I to indulge speculation , I might perhaps compliment you with an ...
... hold , in our times , of thofe , who have not yet had the honour of making their public entry by regular birth , into this our virtuous and happy state of humanity . Were I to indulge speculation , I might perhaps compliment you with an ...
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... hold you to be at prefent nothing , as above obferved ; but , one would imagine , by our way of provid- ing for you , we concluded you never would be any thing . Nor indeed can I pretend , that we de- serve much approbation on account ...
... hold you to be at prefent nothing , as above obferved ; but , one would imagine , by our way of provid- ing for you , we concluded you never would be any thing . Nor indeed can I pretend , that we de- serve much approbation on account ...
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... hold- ing places or pensions from fitting in the house of commons ; which bill , accordingly , minifterial influence was powerful enough to throw out . By the fame ministerial in- fluence , the natural confequence of an ina- dequate ...
... hold- ing places or pensions from fitting in the house of commons ; which bill , accordingly , minifterial influence was powerful enough to throw out . By the fame ministerial in- fluence , the natural confequence of an ina- dequate ...
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... holds himself ever open to advice and perfuafion . He does not fhew himself at different times . unaccountably obftinate , and unaccount- ably pliant , according as it fuits his dif- ferent schemes . He does not , at one time ...
... holds himself ever open to advice and perfuafion . He does not fhew himself at different times . unaccountably obftinate , and unaccount- ably pliant , according as it fuits his dif- ferent schemes . He does not , at one time ...
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... hold , by which to drag them into flavery . And next to the guilt of thofe , who enflave , is that of those , who , by their example , or other wicked arts , corrupt the virtue of their country . MINOR . CRITO for bufinefs , and of ...
... hold , by which to drag them into flavery . And next to the guilt of thofe , who enflave , is that of those , who , by their example , or other wicked arts , corrupt the virtue of their country . MINOR . CRITO for bufinefs , and of ...
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abfolutely againſt antient becauſe beſt buſineſs cafe caufe cauſe chooſe Chriftian cifely confequence confiderable confiftent conftitution corrupt courſe creatures CRITO MINOR dæmons defign defire difpofitions divine effects eſtabliſh evil exiſtence faid fame fecure feems felves fenfe fervice fett fhall fhew fhould fome fomewhat fpecies fpirit ftands ftate fubjects fuch fuffering fufficient fuperior fuppofe fupreme fyftem grand Enemy greateſt happineſs happy himſelf hoftility honeft honour houfe houſe of commons inftance intereft leaft leaſt lefs liberty mankind manner means meaſures ment moft moral agents moſt muft muſt myſelf nation nature neceffary obferved occafion ourſelves papifts perfons pleaſe pleaſure poffible popery preſent prevent propofed puniſhment purpoſe raiſe reader reaſon refpect religion reprefent ruin SATAN ſcheme Scripture SECUND ſee ſtate ſuch thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thouſand tion underſtand univerfe uſed vice virtue whofe whoſe worſhip
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Page 217 - shall call on the rocks and mountains to fall on them, and hide them from the face of Him that sitteth on the Throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb ; for the great day of His wrath is come, and who shall be able to stand?
Page 231 - ... eftablifhed upon. To what grofs abfurdities the following of cuftom, when reafon has left it, may lead, we may be fatisfied, when we fee the bare name of a town, of which there remains not fo much as the ruins, where fcarce fo much houfing as a fheepcote...
Page 215 - Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
Page 216 - Lord sufficiently natural; it would be as easy to force a camel through a door-way, as small as the eye of a needle, as for a rich man to enter into the kingdom oj God.
Page 50 - PATRIOT is he, who fallow's virtue for virtue's fake; who fcrves his country for the fake offerving his country. His country^ I fay : not himfelf. He thinks not of the vile emoluments of mercenary ftate-offices ; he does not, like the giants, rearing mount Pelion upon Ofla, and Olympus on Pelion, heap* employment on employment, penfion upon penfion, reverfion upon reverfion, and fine-cure upon fine-cure, in order to clamber up the dunghill-height, to which fordid ambition, or more fordid avarice,...
Page 54 - ... as they can from the difficulties he himfelf has drawn them into ? Will he wheedle and deceive them, in order to furprife their undeferved efteem, and then make ufe of that very partiality to abufe and injure them r Will he be the...
Page 44 - ... the wheels of government will be clogged, and the machine, inftead of being regularly drawn in the road of fuccefs and honour, by the concurrent endeavours of thofe, whofe bufmefs it is to conduct it, will be in danger of being torn in pieces by the jarring efforts of worthlefs men, who would rather fee their country in ruins, than in any other hands befides thofe of their own faction.
Page 51 - The true patriot is never feen to elbow thofe around him, to worm himfelf in, and fcrew others out, to engage himfelf in factions and cabals, to infift on fordid .gains for himfelf, and his whole crew of friends. What he defires, is, that his country may be ferved. If that is likely to be better done by others, than by himfelf, (and modefty will often incline him to think fo, when it...
Page 54 - The true patiiot is that to his country, which a wife and kind father is to his own dear children. Will a wife and kind father confult his own advantage preferably to that of his children ? Will he make his gain of their lofs r Will he ftrip them to enrich himfelf?
Page 231 - ... in tract of time this reprefentation becomes very unequal and difproportionate to the reafons it was at firft eftablifhed upon. To what grofs abfurdities the following of cuftom, when reafon has left it, may lead, we may be fatisfied, when we fee the bare name of a town, of which there remains not fo much as the ruins, where fcarce fo much houfing as a...