Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and Ecclesiastical Pieces, with New Translations, and an Introduction, Volume 1J. Miller, 1809 |
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... nature and nations , and lastly , to our own municipal laws . In respect of the first principles of govern- ment , we may consider him as having exhausted the subject ; and the developement of these principles has given birth to ...
... nature and nations , and lastly , to our own municipal laws . In respect of the first principles of govern- ment , we may consider him as having exhausted the subject ; and the developement of these principles has given birth to ...
Page xliv
... nature than those of ad- miration . On discovering , however , his inferiority to his antagonist , her attentions became cold and formal ; and she was so malicious as to mortify him by praising Milton's work to his face , which touched ...
... nature than those of ad- miration . On discovering , however , his inferiority to his antagonist , her attentions became cold and formal ; and she was so malicious as to mortify him by praising Milton's work to his face , which touched ...
Page lxi
... natural temper from writing " a dull style ; " and as a general position , he main- tains , that to minds " diversely tempered , " dif- ferent styles are naturally and properly adapted . To all this we may add , that the taste ...
... natural temper from writing " a dull style ; " and as a general position , he main- tains , that to minds " diversely tempered , " dif- ferent styles are naturally and properly adapted . To all this we may add , that the taste ...
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... nature . When the mind is calm and happy , free from a breath of passion , then alone it is , that its judgments are clear and just . Such judgments a good man will endeavour to fix by re- flection , and to confirm them into habits of ...
... nature . When the mind is calm and happy , free from a breath of passion , then alone it is , that its judgments are clear and just . Such judgments a good man will endeavour to fix by re- flection , and to confirm them into habits of ...
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... can see most at once without confusion . It seems natural then to a capacious mind to accustom itself to sentences of some length , particularly in strains 1 of eloquence and in generalizing observations . A sentence is INTRODUCTION .
... can see most at once without confusion . It seems natural then to a capacious mind to accustom itself to sentences of some length , particularly in strains 1 of eloquence and in generalizing observations . A sentence is INTRODUCTION .
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