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... honour'd piles , or caftle - courted peers , The palling glory of recoiling years ? Thy ftudious pages will their aim requite , That throw a radiance on the darkest night ! Are there who ' d Nature curiously obferve , Her laws how far ...
... honour'd piles , or caftle - courted peers , The palling glory of recoiling years ? Thy ftudious pages will their aim requite , That throw a radiance on the darkest night ! Are there who ' d Nature curiously obferve , Her laws how far ...
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... honour as your own ] , giving in that leaf their own explanations full , fimply pointing out , by exact references , the writers they would quote as additional authori- ties , with a general invitation to all perfons to tranfmit to fome ...
... honour as your own ] , giving in that leaf their own explanations full , fimply pointing out , by exact references , the writers they would quote as additional authori- ties , with a general invitation to all perfons to tranfmit to fome ...
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... honour to our national charac- ter as a wife , humane , and understand- ing people . Mr. Raikes could not but have found , from painful experience , what up - hill work he was engaged in , while he was endeavouring to humanize thofe ...
... honour to our national charac- ter as a wife , humane , and understand- ing people . Mr. Raikes could not but have found , from painful experience , what up - hill work he was engaged in , while he was endeavouring to humanize thofe ...
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... honour on the race of mankind , finee ( next to piety and mo- rality ) genius , and fuperiority in works of art , are the pride of man . Within the space of litle more than a hundred years flourished most of thofe celebrated mafters ...
... honour on the race of mankind , finee ( next to piety and mo- rality ) genius , and fuperiority in works of art , are the pride of man . Within the space of litle more than a hundred years flourished most of thofe celebrated mafters ...
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you , Madam , I think they would be an honour to any performance , much more to my little effays . The fenti- ments and the language are of the true poetical curn ; polifhed and fprightly , flowing and flowery . I congratulate you on ...
you , Madam , I think they would be an honour to any performance , much more to my little effays . The fenti- ments and the language are of the true poetical curn ; polifhed and fprightly , flowing and flowery . I congratulate you on ...
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Page 249 - I doubt, too, whether any other Convention we can obtain may be able to make a better Constitution. For when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views.
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Page 379 - I own," added Helve"tius to me, "• although I knew the danger to be greater of harbouring him at Paris than at London ; and although I thought the family of Hanover not only the lawful sovereigns in England, but the only lawful sovereigns in Europe, as having the...