Moral & Political Truth: Or Reflections Suggested by Reading History and Biographyauthor, 1811 - Počet stran: 401 |
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Strana 4
... liveli- est gratification ; and have imbibed the pleasing hope , that your great example would limit the ambition of others ; and stimulate your successors to walk in your path . But sir , if it is a pleasure to reflect DEDICATION .
... liveli- est gratification ; and have imbibed the pleasing hope , that your great example would limit the ambition of others ; and stimulate your successors to walk in your path . But sir , if it is a pleasure to reflect DEDICATION .
Strana 6
... hope , that , if it would be an atom in the scale of liberty , you will be cautious in animadverting on it's defects ; for I cannot , be insensible that if this work has any merit , the sanction of your name would give it currency , and ...
... hope , that , if it would be an atom in the scale of liberty , you will be cautious in animadverting on it's defects ; for I cannot , be insensible that if this work has any merit , the sanction of your name would give it currency , and ...
Strana 12
... hope will justify me , in claiming a small portion of their attention I know , indeed , that in the opinion of some , the motive only , with which a work is published , is not a sufficient justification . They require , not only that ...
... hope will justify me , in claiming a small portion of their attention I know , indeed , that in the opinion of some , the motive only , with which a work is published , is not a sufficient justification . They require , not only that ...
Strana 15
... hope of gain , has been any induce- ment to this work for , if wealth had been the object of my pursuit , many other roads exhibited a fairer pros- From the fate of authors , whom I could not be vain enough to expect to equal , I have ...
... hope of gain , has been any induce- ment to this work for , if wealth had been the object of my pursuit , many other roads exhibited a fairer pros- From the fate of authors , whom I could not be vain enough to expect to equal , I have ...
Strana 16
... hope be useful in their present state : however , whatever be their merits or demerits , I am not able to devote more attention to them at present ; and can offer no other apology for their defects . They were chiefly intended for ...
... hope be useful in their present state : however , whatever be their merits or demerits , I am not able to devote more attention to them at present ; and can offer no other apology for their defects . They were chiefly intended for ...
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Strana 3 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
Strana 311 - Cat/iolicce, and against Luther, who had just begun the Reformation in Germany, upon which the pope gave him the title of Defender of the Faith, a title still retained by the monarcbs of Great Britain: the bull conferring it bears date Oct.
Strana 194 - Turner called to the sheriff's men to bring Mr. Peters to see what was doing ; which being done, the executioner came to him, and rubbing his bloody hands together, asked him how he liked that work. He told him he was not at all terrified, and that he might do his worst, and when he was...
Strana 193 - King to the bar, it had been treason in them ; and as to the part he had in the action with which he was charged, he was so far from repenting what he had done, that he was most ready to seal it with his blood...
Strana 210 - On the twenty-eighth day of March he was conducted, amidst a vast concourse of the populace, to the Greve, the common place of execution, stripped naked, and fastened to the scaffold by iron gyves. One of his hands was then burnt in liquid flaming sulphur; his thighs, legs, and arms, were torn with...
Strana 273 - He applied the golden rule of " doing to others as he would that others should do unto him," which for the present put an end to the discussion.
Strana 245 - ... the Diversions of Purley," first published in octavo in 1786. The work was afterwards enlarged into two volumes quarto, but never completed. In the introduction, the author, with reference to his own political opinions, has humorously alluded to Purley having been once the seat of Bradshaw, President of the High Court of Justice at the trial of Charles I. Respecting the contents of this work, the critical " doctors " of the time did decidedly differ, and a tractable but weak-minded reader must...
Strana 193 - ... their detestation of such usage. At the place of execution, among other things, he declared that he had used the utmost of his endeavours that the practice of the law might be regulated, and that the...
Strana 188 - ... death, by refusing her sustenance, under pretence of its being prejudicial to her health. But he soon saw the futility of relying upon such vain prognostications ; for his soldiers, by their cruelty and rapine, having become insupportable to the inhabitants of Rome...