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Page 598
... minds , it is difficult to fay what was their tendency ; for truth is not promoted by violence of any kind . No one ... mind or body . In praifing the French Revolution before it is half completed , he wishes for an IMPROVE MENT in the ...
... minds , it is difficult to fay what was their tendency ; for truth is not promoted by violence of any kind . No one ... mind or body . In praifing the French Revolution before it is half completed , he wishes for an IMPROVE MENT in the ...
Page 599
... mind , or the ftubborn pride of human - nature , or of a fpirit which ac- tuated too many of the Puritans in the laft century , and too much to be la mented - has found a metempsycholis in the prefent . Till , therefore , the nation can ...
... mind , or the ftubborn pride of human - nature , or of a fpirit which ac- tuated too many of the Puritans in the laft century , and too much to be la mented - has found a metempsycholis in the prefent . Till , therefore , the nation can ...
Page 600
... mind , expreffing their high difapprobation of innovations in the religion and polity of their coun- try . It is the national language re- echoing that of the old Barons of this land . How different is the language of the English ...
... mind , expreffing their high difapprobation of innovations in the religion and polity of their coun- try . It is the national language re- echoing that of the old Barons of this land . How different is the language of the English ...
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... mind , and furious prejudices , are unpardon- able ; his fcandal holds forth no example 3 66 but his own depraved mind . " In Bishop Barlow's Remains it is faid of Wood : Many bad characters are caft on good men - nay , our first ...
... mind , and furious prejudices , are unpardon- able ; his fcandal holds forth no example 3 66 but his own depraved mind . " In Bishop Barlow's Remains it is faid of Wood : Many bad characters are caft on good men - nay , our first ...
Page 610
... mind , I defired him to fa- vour me with an account of what he knew of thofe people ; upon which he gave me the following information , viz . that , about the year 1750 , being one of a party of five or fix traders , they pene- trated ...
... mind , I defired him to fa- vour me with an account of what he knew of thofe people ; upon which he gave me the following information , viz . that , about the year 1750 , being one of a party of five or fix traders , they pene- trated ...
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Page 592 - I am solitary and cannot impart it; till I am known and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Page 592 - ... it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary. and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
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Page 592 - World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the publick, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the...
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