The Anti-Jacobin Review and Protestant Advocate: Or, Monthly Political and Literary Censor, Volume 1Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster-Row, 1799 |
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Or, Monthly Political and Literary Censor. PREFATORY ADDRESS ΤΟ THE READER . HAV VING completed the First Volume of our critical and literary labours , it becomes ne- ceffary to discharge a debt of gratitude , due from us to our readers ...
Or, Monthly Political and Literary Censor. PREFATORY ADDRESS ΤΟ THE READER . HAV VING completed the First Volume of our critical and literary labours , it becomes ne- ceffary to discharge a debt of gratitude , due from us to our readers ...
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... readers . " It hardly ever becomes a man to fay much of his private cha- racter or concerns ; but , on this occafion , I truft I fhall be indulged for a moment . I will fay , and I will make that faying good , who- ever fhail oppofe it ...
... readers . " It hardly ever becomes a man to fay much of his private cha- racter or concerns ; but , on this occafion , I truft I fhall be indulged for a moment . I will fay , and I will make that faying good , who- ever fhail oppofe it ...
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... readers from the revolutionary " tenets and principles , " to which , in the opinion of many perfons of the moft respect- able talents , France is chiefly indebted for her fucceffes , and to confider her " greatnefs " and her " ambition ...
... readers from the revolutionary " tenets and principles , " to which , in the opinion of many perfons of the moft respect- able talents , France is chiefly indebted for her fucceffes , and to confider her " greatnefs " and her " ambition ...
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... readers that the doctrines and principles in queftion had for their ob- ject , not merely the revolution of France , but that of the whole world - That the ufurping rulers of France have la- boured , with unremitting affiduity , for the ...
... readers that the doctrines and principles in queftion had for their ob- ject , not merely the revolution of France , but that of the whole world - That the ufurping rulers of France have la- boured , with unremitting affiduity , for the ...
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... readers will judge ) we will , for the prefent , take our leave of the author , with this concluding remark -- that we confider his work as a fair and , apparently , as a folid edifice ; captivating to the eye , and replete with ...
... readers will judge ) we will , for the prefent , take our leave of the author , with this concluding remark -- that we confider his work as a fair and , apparently , as a folid edifice ; captivating to the eye , and replete with ...
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Page 555 - Submit yourfelves to every ordinance of man " for the Lord's fake : whether it be to the King " as fupreme ; or unto Governors, as unto them " that are fent by him for the punifhment of evil " doers, and for the praife of them that do well.
Page 555 - Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power ? Do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same. For he is a minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid ; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
Page 657 - The dominion of speech," he says,2 " is erected upon the downfall of interjections. Without the artful contrivances of language, mankind would have had nothing but interjections with which to communicate, orally, any of their feelings. The neighing of a horse, the lowing of a cow, the barking of a dog, the purring of a cat, sneezing, coughing, groaning, shrieking, and every other involuntary convulsion with oral sound, have almost as good a title to be called parts of speech, as interjections have.
Page 321 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 325 - But valour the stronger grows, The stronger liquor we're drinking. And how can we feel our woes, When we've lost the trouble of thinking? (drinks) AIR LXIII. Joy to great Caesar If thus A man can die Much bolder with brandy. (pours out a bumper of brandy) AIR LXIV. There was an old woman So I drink off this bumper.
Page 538 - Attack them in every direction by day and by night. Avail yourselves of the natural advantages of your country, which are innumerable, and with which you are better acquainted than they. Where you cannot oppose them in full force, constantly harass their rear and their flanks ; cut off their provisions and magazines, and prevent them as much as possible from uniting their forces.
Page 444 - That it was not yet gone so far, but all things might be restored again ; and that, if the soldiers were commanded out of the House, and the mace returned, the public affairs might go on in their course." Cromwell rejected this advice, and called Allen to account for some hundred thousand pounds which, as Treasurer of the army, he had embezzled.
Page 411 - ... inflame, so as to produce an instantaneous explosion, in consequence of which that edifice, the erection of which has been the work of ages, may be overturned in a moment, and so effectually, as that the same foundation can never be built upon again.
Page 295 - that the mass of the people do not care a feather for Catholic emancipation ; neither did they care for parliamentary reform, till it was explained to them as leading to other objects which they did look to, particularly the abolition of tithes.