Fugitive Pieces on Various Subjects: A vindication of natural societyRobert Dodsley J. Dodsley, 1771 - English essays |
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... Perfons become Victims of his Sufpicions . The flightest Displeasure is Death ? and a disagreeable Afpect is often as great a Crime as High - treafon . In the Court Court of Nero a Perfon of Learning , of unqueftioned 36 A VINDICATION.
... Perfons become Victims of his Sufpicions . The flightest Displeasure is Death ? and a disagreeable Afpect is often as great a Crime as High - treafon . In the Court Court of Nero a Perfon of Learning , of unqueftioned 36 A VINDICATION.
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Robert Dodsley. Court of Nero a Perfon of Learning , of unqueftioned Merit , and of unfufpected Loyalty , was put to Death for no other Reason than that he had a pedantick Countenance which displeased the Emperor . This very Monster of ...
Robert Dodsley. Court of Nero a Perfon of Learning , of unqueftioned Merit , and of unfufpected Loyalty , was put to Death for no other Reason than that he had a pedantick Countenance which displeased the Emperor . This very Monster of ...
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... Courts , and two Interests ; both very different from the Interests of the People . The Favourite knows that the Re ... Court . What has been faid of the chief , is true of the inferior Officers of this Species of Government ; each in ...
... Courts , and two Interests ; both very different from the Interests of the People . The Favourite knows that the Re ... Court . What has been faid of the chief , is true of the inferior Officers of this Species of Government ; each in ...
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... Court ; and all Services done to the State are looked upon as dangerous to the Rulers , whether Sultans or Senators . The Oftracifm at Athens was built upon this Principle . The giddy People , whom we have now under Confideration ...
... Court ; and all Services done to the State are looked upon as dangerous to the Rulers , whether Sultans or Senators . The Oftracifm at Athens was built upon this Principle . The giddy People , whom we have now under Confideration ...
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... Court , he was obliged to enter Rome with all the Secrecy of a Criminal . He went to the Palace , not like a victorious Com- mander who had merited and might demand the greatest Rewards , but like an Offender who had come to fupplicate ...
... Court , he was obliged to enter Rome with all the Secrecy of a Criminal . He went to the Palace , not like a victorious Com- mander who had merited and might demand the greatest Rewards , but like an Offender who had come to fupplicate ...
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