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... body what folidity there is in thefe reflections , and can give me your orders for my conduct in the occafions which may prefent . I fhall confine myfelf to what appears to me to be for your service at prefent , without carrying my ...
... body what folidity there is in thefe reflections , and can give me your orders for my conduct in the occafions which may prefent . I fhall confine myfelf to what appears to me to be for your service at prefent , without carrying my ...
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... body and mind , that renders them abfolutely incapable of performing their ufual func- tions . It is not very furprizing , that it should produce these effects on a phlegmatic English conftitution ; but we have juft now an in- flance ...
... body and mind , that renders them abfolutely incapable of performing their ufual func- tions . It is not very furprizing , that it should produce these effects on a phlegmatic English conftitution ; but we have juft now an in- flance ...
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... body . Letters firft difpofed the people to break loofe from this fpecies of flavery ; and thirit of power inclined the prince to fhut out the bishop of Rome with all his trumpery , and become his own pope : both were gainers by the ...
... body . Letters firft difpofed the people to break loofe from this fpecies of flavery ; and thirit of power inclined the prince to fhut out the bishop of Rome with all his trumpery , and become his own pope : both were gainers by the ...
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... body and vitiate the mind , fatally counteracts this fpecious temporary advantage . We may already begin to perceive this fad truth , without any com- fortable prospect of being able to check it ; for when a general de- pravation of ...
... body and vitiate the mind , fatally counteracts this fpecious temporary advantage . We may already begin to perceive this fad truth , without any com- fortable prospect of being able to check it ; for when a general de- pravation of ...
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... body of priests and profeffors in the Chriftian church , seems somewhat mysterious : to make reprifals in this way , was furely unfair and ungenerous ; more efpecially , as Dr. B. himfelf is not of the facerdotal order . Does the ...
... body of priests and profeffors in the Chriftian church , seems somewhat mysterious : to make reprifals in this way , was furely unfair and ungenerous ; more efpecially , as Dr. B. himfelf is not of the facerdotal order . Does the ...
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Page 423 - Daring the reigns of King Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth, it was...
Page 117 - It is not smooth and even like the greatest part of the latter ; but is finely variegated by an infinite number of those beautiful little mountains that have been formed by the different eruptions of JEtna.
Page 418 - Congreve's four comedies, two are concluded by a marriage in a mask, by a deception, which perhaps never happened, and which, whether likely or not, he did not invent. So careless was this great poet of future fame, that though he retired to ease and plenty, while he was yet little declined into the vale of years...
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Page 418 - ... are read without any other reason than the desire of pleasure, and are therefore praised only as pleasure is obtained; yet, thus unassisted by interest or passion, they have passed through variations of taste and changes of manners, and, as they devolved from one generation to another, have received new honours at every transmission.
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Page 111 - The evils of this life appear like rocks and precipices, rugged and barren at a distance ; but at our nearer approach we find little fruitful spots, and refreshing springs, mixed with the harshness and deformities of nature.