Biographical, Literary, and Political Anecdotes of Several of the Most Eminent Persons of the Present Age. Never Before Printed: With an Appendix Consisting of Original, Explanatory, and Scarce Papers, Том 1T. N. Longman, and L. B. Seeley, in Pater-Noster-Row., 1797 - 410 страници |
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... wish to reclaim rather than to punish . Or even , if obftinacy be irreclaimable , we have still fome hope in the future , from our knowledge of the past . A difhonoured reign may pafs away in our annals , like a cloudy day in fummer ...
... wish to reclaim rather than to punish . Or even , if obftinacy be irreclaimable , we have still fome hope in the future , from our knowledge of the past . A difhonoured reign may pafs away in our annals , like a cloudy day in fummer ...
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... wish to maintain it , —an abfolute power in the hearts of his fubjects . Such was the power and the opportunity of exercifing it with which his prefent Majefty afcended the throne . If it had been the counsel of his reign to improve it ...
... wish to maintain it , —an abfolute power in the hearts of his fubjects . Such was the power and the opportunity of exercifing it with which his prefent Majefty afcended the throne . If it had been the counsel of his reign to improve it ...
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... wish may be the fact , it be the forgery of the men who have furrounded and betrayed him . They are the publishers , if they did not invent or dictate it ; and they will foon be tried by God and their country . In this fhort fentence is ...
... wish may be the fact , it be the forgery of the men who have furrounded and betrayed him . They are the publishers , if they did not invent or dictate it ; and they will foon be tried by God and their country . In this fhort fentence is ...
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... wishes of your heart , I fhould think that Heaven , in its utmost displeasure , could not inflict a heavier curfe on this nation , than to fuffer you to take a part in the direction of But in the weakness of your understanding , I ...
... wishes of your heart , I fhould think that Heaven , in its utmost displeasure , could not inflict a heavier curfe on this nation , than to fuffer you to take a part in the direction of But in the weakness of your understanding , I ...
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... wishes , and most anxious expectations . " The fums are trifling . " - How has he proved this ? has he dared to aver that these are the only lifts which ingulph the treasures of the public ? where is that lift , drawn up in darkness ...
... wishes , and most anxious expectations . " The fums are trifling . " - How has he proved this ? has he dared to aver that these are the only lifts which ingulph the treasures of the public ? where is that lift , drawn up in darkness ...
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Страница 250 - They were not of the nature of private letters between friends. They were written by public officers to persons in public stations, on public affairs, and intended to procure public measures; they were therefore handed to other public persons, who might be influenced by them to produce those measures.