The Works of the Late Right Honourable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke: With the Life of Lord BolingbrokeJ. Johnson [et 23 al.], 1809 |
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... absurd to impute to the tories the principles , which were laid to their charge for- merly , as it would be to ascribe to the projector and his faction the name of whigs , while they daily forfeit that character by their actions . The ...
... absurd to impute to the tories the principles , which were laid to their charge for- merly , as it would be to ascribe to the projector and his faction the name of whigs , while they daily forfeit that character by their actions . The ...
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... absurd to assert , when they brought about that great event , in concert with the rest of the nation , as I shall some time or other prove . To this magna charta , and these principles , let us adhere inviolably , in opposition to the ...
... absurd to assert , when they brought about that great event , in concert with the rest of the nation , as I shall some time or other prove . To this magna charta , and these principles , let us adhere inviolably , in opposition to the ...
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... absurd and slavish doctrines I have mentioned would have been exploded early . They would have been buried in the recent grave of him who first devised them ; and the memory of him and of them would have stunk together in the the ...
... absurd and slavish doctrines I have mentioned would have been exploded early . They would have been buried in the recent grave of him who first devised them ; and the memory of him and of them would have stunk together in the the ...
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... impiger hausit Spumantem pateram : he drank the chalice off to the lowest and foulest dregs . That principles as absurd as these in their na- E 2 ture , ture , and as terrible in their consequences , such UPON PAR TIES . 51.
... impiger hausit Spumantem pateram : he drank the chalice off to the lowest and foulest dregs . That principles as absurd as these in their na- E 2 ture , ture , and as terrible in their consequences , such UPON PAR TIES . 51.
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... absurd it is for any man , who was born since that æra , or who , being born before it , hath been bound by no particular , legal tye to any other settlement , to be willing to give up the advantages of the pre- sent constitution , any ...
... absurd it is for any man , who was born since that æra , or who , being born before it , hath been bound by no particular , legal tye to any other settlement , to be willing to give up the advantages of the pre- sent constitution , any ...
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Seite 18 - of man. Incapacity often begets sufficiency; and yet a consciousness of incapacity often begets a jealousy of power, grounded on a sense of the superior merit of other men. The minister, who grows less by his elevation, like a little statue placed on a mighty pedestal, will always have this jealousy strong about him. He
Seite 349 - his oratory entering into a detail with God, as devout persons are apt to do, and, among other particular thanksgivings, acknowledging the divine goodness in furnishing the world with makers of dictionaries! These men court fame, as well as their betters, by such means as God has given them to acquire it:
Seite 350 - not. They deserve encouragement, however, while they continue to compile, and neither affect wit, nor presume to reason. There is a fourth class, of much less use than these, but of much greater name. Men of the first rank in learning, and to whom the whole tribe of scholars bow with reverence. A
Seite 271 - It is limited to the publick good of " the society. It is a power, that hath no other " end but preservation, and therefore can never