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... say it refided in them , for any inanimate metaphor is = no more than a hat or a cap . We can all fee the abfurdity of worshipping - Aaron's molten calf , or Nebuchad- nezzar's golden image ; but why do , men continue to practise ...
... say it refided in them , for any inanimate metaphor is = no more than a hat or a cap . We can all fee the abfurdity of worshipping - Aaron's molten calf , or Nebuchad- nezzar's golden image ; but why do , men continue to practise ...
Page 57
... become in ftri & t alliance . At the fame time that there is this pro- fpect of peace with Ruffia , we are forry to say that fresh difputes have broken out in I another another quarter . There is no longer any doubt of ( 57 )
... become in ftri & t alliance . At the fame time that there is this pro- fpect of peace with Ruffia , we are forry to say that fresh difputes have broken out in I another another quarter . There is no longer any doubt of ( 57 )
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... say , that this con- fufion had been of the greatest fervice to the Minifter in the profecution of this measure ; for , had the Public been fpec fically apprized of this robbery of the Bank , the alarm would have been taken , and the ...
... say , that this con- fufion had been of the greatest fervice to the Minifter in the profecution of this measure ; for , had the Public been fpec fically apprized of this robbery of the Bank , the alarm would have been taken , and the ...
Page 137
... say , that the most noble and graceful ob- ject I have ever feen was one of thofe favages mounted and running at full fpeed . The broad Herculean trunk of his body , his gun leaning over the left arm , and his plaid or blanket thrown ...
... say , that the most noble and graceful ob- ject I have ever feen was one of thofe favages mounted and running at full fpeed . The broad Herculean trunk of his body , his gun leaning over the left arm , and his plaid or blanket thrown ...
Page 154
... says he should have been very well contented to have re- mained where he was , yet the prepa- rations for sport of fo noble a kind roufed his fpirits , and made him defi- rous to join in it . On the other hand , the ladies all declared ...
... says he should have been very well contented to have re- mained where he was , yet the prepa- rations for sport of fo noble a kind roufed his fpirits , and made him defi- rous to join in it . On the other hand , the ladies all declared ...
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Page 143 - Political arrangement, as it is a work for social ends, is to be only wrought by social means. There mind must conspire with mind. Time is required to produce that union of minds which alone can produce all the good we aim at. Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Page 23 - Imagination has given figure and character to centaurs, satyrs, and down to all the fairy tribe; but titles baffle even the powers of fancy, and are a chimerical non-descript.
Page 79 - They can see, without pain or grudging, an archbishop precede a duke. They can see a bishop of Durham, or a bishop of Winchester, in possession of ten thousand pounds a year; and cannot conceive why it is in worse hands than estates to the like amount in the hands of this earl, or that squire...
Page 319 - Political liberty consists in the power of doing whatever does not injure another. The exercise of the natural rights of every man, has no other limits than those which are necessary to secure to every other man the free exercise of the same rights ; and these limits are determinable only by the law.
Page 80 - Toleration, therefore, places itself, not between man and man, nor between church and church, nor between one denomination of religion and another, but between God and man; between the being who worships, and the being who is worshipped; and by the same act of assumed authority by which it tolerates man to pay his worship, it presumptuously and blasphemously sets itself up to tolerate the Almighty to receive it.
Page 24 - It is a law against every law of nature, and nature herself calls for its destruction. Establish family justice and aristocracy falls. By the aristocratical law of primogenitureship, in a family of six children, five are exposed. Aristocracy has never but one child. The rest are begotten to be devoured. They are thrown to the cannibal for prey, and the natural parent prepares the unnatural repast.
Page 156 - Here we thought he was caught as in a trap, for he had scarce room to turn ; when a servant, who had a gun, standing directly over him, fired at his head, and the animal fell immediately, to all appearance dead. All those on foot, now jumped in with...
Page 119 - The members of the first, deemed the most sacred, had it for their province to study the principles of religion ; to perform its functions ; and to cultivate the sciences. They were the priests, the instructors, and philosophers of the nation.
Page 155 - I avoided without difficulty ; but I am happy to this day, in the reflection that I did not strike it.
Page 154 - ... side ; and while he engages the elephant's attention upon the horse, the footman behind gives him a drawn stroke just above the heel, or what in man is called the tendon of Achilles.