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Page xix
... Several men of ingenuity and tafte have contended that James is little if at all inferior to Chaucer . If the former's Court of Venus be compared to the latter's Court of Love , the royal author will lofe nothing by the comparison . The ...
... Several men of ingenuity and tafte have contended that James is little if at all inferior to Chaucer . If the former's Court of Venus be compared to the latter's Court of Love , the royal author will lofe nothing by the comparison . The ...
Page xxxi
... several important privileges and immunities . Notwithstanding fuch pleafing encouragement , the univerfity was very defi- cient in accommodations and endowments . The students lived wholly at their own expence , and the teachers had no ...
... several important privileges and immunities . Notwithstanding fuch pleafing encouragement , the univerfity was very defi- cient in accommodations and endowments . The students lived wholly at their own expence , and the teachers had no ...
Page 64
... several of the deputies fignified to the affembly that they had received no inftruc- tions from their conflituents upon this point , and intreated that the question might be deferred to a fu- ture occafion . The attentive reader has ...
... several of the deputies fignified to the affembly that they had received no inftruc- tions from their conflituents upon this point , and intreated that the question might be deferred to a fu- ture occafion . The attentive reader has ...
Page 73
... several of the subjects which had been mentioned . But he was more explicit upon the business of a parliamentary reform . Perhaps he did not differ from lord Surrey in thinking that the most practica- ble mode of accomplishing it ...
... several of the subjects which had been mentioned . But he was more explicit upon the business of a parliamentary reform . Perhaps he did not differ from lord Surrey in thinking that the most practica- ble mode of accomplishing it ...
Page 86
... several of the fums in the estimates , and particularly upon a charge of 16,000l . for build- ing a houfe in one of the dock- yards for a commiffioner . He said , he hoped that Mr. Charles Brett , who had on feveral occafions fhewn ...
... several of the fums in the estimates , and particularly upon a charge of 16,000l . for build- ing a houfe in one of the dock- yards for a commiffioner . He said , he hoped that Mr. Charles Brett , who had on feveral occafions fhewn ...
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Page 234 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; * if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free, They touch our country, and their shackles, fall.
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Page 183 - For in a discourse of our present civil war, what could seem more impertinent, than to ask, as one did, what was the value of a Roman penny? Yet the coherence to me was manifest enough. For the thought of the war, introduced the thought of the delivering up the king to his enemies, the thought of that brought in the thought of the delivering up of Christ, and that again the thought of the thirty pence which was the price of that treason; and thence easily followed that malicious question; and all...
Page 229 - Lo, as old authors ling, c the ftones 'gan pour/ Indeed an *Otaheite fhow'r ! The confequence was dreadful, let me tell ye ; One's eye was beat out of his head, This limp'd away, that lay for dead ; Here mourn'da broken back, and there a belly.
Page 233 - Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys...
Page 127 - What Preferences are now given to the Importation of any Article, the Growth, Produce, or Manufacture of Ireland, by any Duty or Prohibition on the Importation...
Page 188 - God forgiveness for an offence, which it had been his intention to repair by marrying her : that with...
Page 131 - Ireland, by laws to be passed by the parliament of that kingdom, for the same time, and in the same manner, as in Great Britain. V^ — That it is further essential to this settlement, that all goods and commodities of the growth, produce, or manufacture of British or foreign colonies in America or the West Indies, and the British or foreign settlements on the coast of Africa, imported into Ireland, should, on importation, be subject to the same duties and regulations...