The Manual of Liberty, Or, Testimonies in Behalf of the Rights of Mankind; Selected from the Best Authorities, in Prose and Verse, and Methodically ArrangedH. D. Symonds, 1795 - 406 pàgines |
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... . It holds out an appeal to the most scrupulous doubter , or the most zealous adversary of public liberty . The doubter who would guard against the contagion of any any temporary delusion , and the adversary who turns away iv PREFACE :
... . It holds out an appeal to the most scrupulous doubter , or the most zealous adversary of public liberty . The doubter who would guard against the contagion of any any temporary delusion , and the adversary who turns away iv PREFACE :
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any temporary delusion , and the adversary who turns away indignant from insolent novelties , are each of them consulted in this case . We give to them opinions , not the immature product of temporary zeal , but that have stood the test ...
any temporary delusion , and the adversary who turns away indignant from insolent novelties , are each of them consulted in this case . We give to them opinions , not the immature product of temporary zeal , but that have stood the test ...
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... turning to a captain of his gallies , " strip the injured and the injurer , and conveying them to 66 one of the most barbarous and remote of the " islands , set them ashore in the night , and leave them both to their fortune . " $ 6 66 ...
... turning to a captain of his gallies , " strip the injured and the injurer , and conveying them to 66 one of the most barbarous and remote of the " islands , set them ashore in the night , and leave them both to their fortune . " $ 6 66 ...
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... turn to our gentleman's mind , insomuch , that lying awake one night , he thus confessed his error to the basket - maker : " I " have been to blame , " says he , " and wanted judgment to distinguish between accident and " excellence ...
... turn to our gentleman's mind , insomuch , that lying awake one night , he thus confessed his error to the basket - maker : " I " have been to blame , " says he , " and wanted judgment to distinguish between accident and " excellence ...
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... turn common cheat , and the other servilely to put on a livery . You place a dependence on the actual order of society , without thinking that order subject to unavoidable revolutions . The high may be re- duced low , and the rich may ...
... turn common cheat , and the other servilely to put on a livery . You place a dependence on the actual order of society , without thinking that order subject to unavoidable revolutions . The high may be re- duced low , and the rich may ...
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Pàgina 35 - tis true, this god did shake ; His coward lips did from their colour fly, And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world Did lose his lustre : I did hear him groan : Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark him and write his speeches in their books, Alas, it cried, 'Give me some drink, Titinius,
Pàgina 318 - Let it pry through the portage of the head. Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it. As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Pàgina 279 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Pàgina 41 - They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; That opened not the house of his prisoners?
Pàgina 291 - Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain.
Pàgina 39 - Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now ? your gambols ? your songs ? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Pàgina 297 - THE first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
Pàgina 336 - Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic. Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell.
Pàgina 236 - I smile, And cry, Content, to that which grieves my heart ; And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions.