Essays and SelectionsPickering, 1837 - Počet stran: 356 |
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... common minds , of which instances occur every moment . † * Ante , p . 47 . † A whimsical instance is mentioned by Smollet , in his novel of Peregrine Pickle , where Attachment to opinion from interest appears in a variety of 50.
... common minds , of which instances occur every moment . † * Ante , p . 47 . † A whimsical instance is mentioned by Smollet , in his novel of Peregrine Pickle , where Attachment to opinion from interest appears in a variety of 50.
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... common type of tenacity from the love of money , which was well understood by the English ambassador , who , upon his return from Rome , being asked by Queen Caroline , " Why he had not attempted to make a convert of the Pope ...
... common type of tenacity from the love of money , which was well understood by the English ambassador , who , upon his return from Rome , being asked by Queen Caroline , " Why he had not attempted to make a convert of the Pope ...
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... common things ; Philosophy would clip an angel's wings . " So The excesses of false religious imaginations are lamentable proofs of this species of illusion . true is it , that the corruption of the best good is often the worst evil ...
... common things ; Philosophy would clip an angel's wings . " So The excesses of false religious imaginations are lamentable proofs of this species of illusion . true is it , that the corruption of the best good is often the worst evil ...
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... common rule , that " when man is under the influence of a passion stronger than the love of truth , from the truth he will swerve . " A rule so recognized by the law of England , that the most opulent and the most honorable peer of the ...
... common rule , that " when man is under the influence of a passion stronger than the love of truth , from the truth he will swerve . " A rule so recognized by the law of England , that the most opulent and the most honorable peer of the ...
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... Common Serjeant , who assured the house that such an innovation would endanger the whole criminal law of Eng- land ; and , when the same excellent man after- wards proposed to abolish the disgusting and disgraceful punishment for high ...
... Common Serjeant , who assured the house that such an innovation would endanger the whole criminal law of Eng- land ; and , when the same excellent man after- wards proposed to abolish the disgusting and disgraceful punishment for high ...
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Strana 12 - Of law, there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage : the very least as feeling her care ; and the greatest, as not exempted from her power.
Strana 82 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Strana 52 - Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands...
Strana 195 - As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress, that, as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment, at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. Those, I doubt not, they will discharge; and that is all I desire.
Strana 259 - But power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring. For good thoughts (though God accept them) yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act; and that cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground.
Strana 268 - From the moment that any advocate can be permitted to say, that he will or will not stand between the Crown and the subject arraigned in the Court where he daily sits to practise, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end.
Strana 114 - Thou minds me o' the happy days When my fause luve was true. " Thou'll break my heart, thou bonie bird That sings beside thy mate ; For sae I sat, and sae I sang, And wist na o' my fate. " Aft hae I rov'd by bonie Doon, To see the woodbine twine, And ilka bird sang o' its love, And sae did I o
Strana 185 - For this is not the liberty which we can hope, that no grievance ever should arise in the Commonwealth, that let no man in this world expect ; but when complaints are freely heard, deeply considered, and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
Strana 316 - But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been; a conjunction like unto that of the two highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action.
Strana 11 - Now, if nature should intermit her course, and leave altogether, though it were but for a while, the observation of her own laws; if those principal and mother elements of the world, whereof all things in this lower world are made, should lose the qualities which now they have ; if the frame of that heavenly arch erected over our heads should loosen and dissolve itself ; if celestial...