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Page 28
... interests which I had bound myself by promise to promote . On the completion , however , of my work , I discovered , and ... interest in the scene around me of which I must never again hope to be sen- sible ; and my pen , which now moves ...
... interests which I had bound myself by promise to promote . On the completion , however , of my work , I discovered , and ... interest in the scene around me of which I must never again hope to be sen- sible ; and my pen , which now moves ...
Page 38
... interest is directly af- fected , passion will necessarily be excited ; and the weapons of passion are seldom deli- cately fashioned or scrupulously employed . When the good or the great therefore are exposed to falsehood by ...
... interest is directly af- fected , passion will necessarily be excited ; and the weapons of passion are seldom deli- cately fashioned or scrupulously employed . When the good or the great therefore are exposed to falsehood by ...
Page 40
... interests of man seems to justify that indignation which would brand , again and again , the hand lifted in violation of the illustrious dead . The dead , indeed , are at rest from their labours ; and , far from the reach of human ...
... interests of man seems to justify that indignation which would brand , again and again , the hand lifted in violation of the illustrious dead . The dead , indeed , are at rest from their labours ; and , far from the reach of human ...
Page 44
... interest of his bro- ther . Christopher Milton is asserted , by his nephew Philips , to have been a person of a modest and quiet temper , in whose estima- tion justice and virtue were preferable to worldly pleasure and grandeur : but he ...
... interest of his bro- ther . Christopher Milton is asserted , by his nephew Philips , to have been a person of a modest and quiet temper , in whose estima- tion justice and virtue were preferable to worldly pleasure and grandeur : but he ...
Page 53
... interest . The important concessions which he was compelled to make to religious principle would necessarily attach it the more closely to his heart ; and he would naturally be soli- citous to stamp upon the tender bosom of his son that ...
... interest . The important concessions which he was compelled to make to religious principle would necessarily attach it the more closely to his heart ; and he would naturally be soli- citous to stamp upon the tender bosom of his son that ...
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