English Prose: Eighteenth centurySir Henry Craik Macmillan, 1911 |
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... True Policy of Great Britain towards her American Colonies Defence of his Political Conduct 379 385 Liberty 390 The Mistaken Methods , and the Resulting Crimes of the French Revolution 391 The Rights of Man · 398 The End of the Age of ...
... True Policy of Great Britain towards her American Colonies Defence of his Political Conduct 379 385 Liberty 390 The Mistaken Methods , and the Resulting Crimes of the French Revolution 391 The Rights of Man · 398 The End of the Age of ...
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... true , but yet sincere in his individuality , and with a certain freshness in his freedom from conventionality . No age , fortunately , can mould character after one type , or prescribe a code so strong as to stifle individuality . The ...
... true , but yet sincere in his individuality , and with a certain freshness in his freedom from conventionality . No age , fortunately , can mould character after one type , or prescribe a code so strong as to stifle individuality . The ...
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... true not for one age only but for all time ; but we have to see in him the writer of a prose illumined as with fire ; enthusiastic and yet supremely logical : fearless and yet absolutely obedient to order and to law eloquent and yet ...
... true not for one age only but for all time ; but we have to see in him the writer of a prose illumined as with fire ; enthusiastic and yet supremely logical : fearless and yet absolutely obedient to order and to law eloquent and yet ...
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... true philosopher , viewing in another light , considers as a man of pleasant occupation who diverts himself , and benefits the public ; and that with so much ease , that he employs a multitude of men , and sets an infinite machine in ...
... true philosopher , viewing in another light , considers as a man of pleasant occupation who diverts himself , and benefits the public ; and that with so much ease , that he employs a multitude of men , and sets an infinite machine in ...
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... true springs that actuate the great machine of commerce , and make a flourishing state , have been hitherto little understood . Your moralists and divines have for so many ages been corrupting the genuine sense of mankind , and filling ...
... true springs that actuate the great machine of commerce , and make a flourishing state , have been hitherto little understood . Your moralists and divines have for so many ages been corrupting the genuine sense of mankind , and filling ...
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Page 503 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Page 456 - For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book and all the people. Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
Page 190 - Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honor, which, being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
Page 50 - Now, when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John, who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost (for as yet he was fallen upon none of them; only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus). Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.
Page 190 - Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow...
Page 59 - That Christ was manifested to destroy the works of the devil. (2) That as in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made alive. From the beginning to the end of Christ's atoning work, no other power is ascribed to it, nothing else is intended by it, as an appeaser of wrath, but the destroying of all that in man which comes from the devil ; no other merits, or value, or infinite worth, than that of its infinite ability...
Page 385 - America, gentlemen say, is a noble object. It is an object well worth fighting for. Certainly it is, if fighting a people be the best way of gaining them. Gentlemen in this respect will be led to their choice of means by their complexions and their habits. Those who understand the military art will, of course, have some predilection for it. Those who wield the thunder of the State may have more confidence in the efficacy of arms. But i confess, possibly for want of this knowledge, my opinion is much...
Page 590 - A little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep...
Page 371 - I was ever of opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single and only talked of population.
Page 82 - The Wise Man observes, that there is a time to speak, and a time to keep silence. One meets with people in the world, who seem never to have made the last of these observations. And yet these great talkers do not at all speak from their having any thing to say, as every sentence shows, but only from their inclination to be talking.