The Pamphleteer, Volume 18Abraham John Valpy A. J. Valpy., 1821 - Great Britain |
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... living under governments of their own crea- tion and choice . They became more alarming from the conduct and language of one of the principal Sovereigns , on the notification made to him , by the Spanish minister resident at his court ...
... living under governments of their own crea- tion and choice . They became more alarming from the conduct and language of one of the principal Sovereigns , on the notification made to him , by the Spanish minister resident at his court ...
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... living by hard labor after their discharge . The labor of prisoners , however , is at best mere play , in comparison with the intense persevering atten- tion , and the laborious efforts , to which men are driven to sup- port their ...
... living by hard labor after their discharge . The labor of prisoners , however , is at best mere play , in comparison with the intense persevering atten- tion , and the laborious efforts , to which men are driven to sup- port their ...
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... living , among them , very inconsistent with the kind of imprisonment which the law in- tended them to undergo . ' I cannot tell what it is intended to ' It has been said , that the prisoners live too well already at the peniten- tiary ...
... living , among them , very inconsistent with the kind of imprisonment which the law in- tended them to undergo . ' I cannot tell what it is intended to ' It has been said , that the prisoners live too well already at the peniten- tiary ...
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... living in villages , or spread over the face of a large district , ) or to the fluctuations of trade incident to a great extent of commerce and manufacture , by which large bodies of workmen are often thrown at once out of employment ...
... living in villages , or spread over the face of a large district , ) or to the fluctuations of trade incident to a great extent of commerce and manufacture , by which large bodies of workmen are often thrown at once out of employment ...
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... living or the dead , would be as " AMPLE , " and I should regret it was ever occasioned . And so , I bid you farewell for the present , till I speak of your other answer ! I shall take a glance at that when these sheets are print- ed ...
... living or the dead , would be as " AMPLE , " and I should regret it was ever occasioned . And so , I bid you farewell for the present , till I speak of your other answer ! I shall take a glance at that when these sheets are print- ed ...
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Page 374 - WHO is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength ? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
Page 234 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won.
Page 571 - Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try, And hard Unkindness' alter'd eye, That mocks the tear it forc'd to flow ; And keen Remorse with blood defil'd.
Page 44 - Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?
Page 79 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 231 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of Art. Art from that fund each just supply provides; Works without show, and without pomp presides: In some fair body thus th...
Page 233 - Their dread commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Page 577 - Tis not, as heads that never ache suppose, Forgery of fancy and a dream of woes ; Man is a harp whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright, The screws reversed, (a task which if he please God in a moment executes with ease,) Ten thousand thousand strings at once go loose, Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use.
Page 194 - ... which by any manner spiritual authority or jurisdiction ought or may lawfully be reformed, repressed, ordered, redressed, corrected, restrained or amended, most to the pleasure of Almighty God, the increase of virtue in Christ's religion, and for the conservation of the peace, unity and tranquillity of this realm: any usage, custom, foreign laws, foreign authority, prescription or any other thing or things to the contrary hereof notwithstanding.
Page 197 - It is a cardinal rule of statutory construction that significance and effect shall, if possible, be accorded to every word. As early as in Bacon's Abridgment, sect. 2, it was said that 'a statute ought, upon the whole, to be so construed that, if it can be prevented, no clause, sentence, or word shall be superfluous, void, or insignificant.