Occasional Essays on Various Subjects: Chiefly Political and Historical; Extracted Partly from the Publick Newspapers, During the Present Reign, and Partly from Tracts Published in the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth, King Charles I., King Charles II, and from Bishop Burnet's History of His Own TimesFrancis Maseres R. Wilks, 1809 - 607 Seiten |
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... matter in issue in criminal prosecutions for publishing Libels , -In Fe bruary 1792 . N.B. This excellent Bill passed through both Houses of Parliament , and received the Royal Assent , and therefore is , now , beyond all dispute or ...
... matter in issue in criminal prosecutions for publishing Libels , -In Fe bruary 1792 . N.B. This excellent Bill passed through both Houses of Parliament , and received the Royal Assent , and therefore is , now , beyond all dispute or ...
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... amongst other important and curious matter , contains , ( in page 3 : 3 ) an account of the remark- able circumstances , by means of which the Kings of France were enabled to assume to themselves , the power of CONTENTS . xi.
... amongst other important and curious matter , contains , ( in page 3 : 3 ) an account of the remark- able circumstances , by means of which the Kings of France were enabled to assume to themselves , the power of CONTENTS . xi.
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... matter of fuch high importance , which would be no way fuitable to the dignity of the House , or to the character of wife and con- fiderate judges that were giving a judicial determination of the point that was then before them . Now ...
... matter of fuch high importance , which would be no way fuitable to the dignity of the House , or to the character of wife and con- fiderate judges that were giving a judicial determination of the point that was then before them . Now ...
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... matter by the teftimony of Sea - officers ac- quainted with Newfoundland , and the Gulf of Saint Law- rence , and the fisheries carried - on in thofe parts , and by the teftimony of merchants acquainted with the fame fub- jects , ) to ...
... matter by the teftimony of Sea - officers ac- quainted with Newfoundland , and the Gulf of Saint Law- rence , and the fisheries carried - on in thofe parts , and by the teftimony of merchants acquainted with the fame fub- jects , ) to ...
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... matter . Such a refolution of the two Houfes of Parliament would give the Americans a strong moral affurance that the pri- vileges granted them by their charters would not be lightly and wantonly altered for the future upon the hafty ...
... matter . Such a refolution of the two Houfes of Parliament would give the Americans a strong moral affurance that the pri- vileges granted them by their charters would not be lightly and wantonly altered for the future upon the hafty ...
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Seite 194 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys" a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the Earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Seite 238 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Seite 206 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised, and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather ; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.
Seite 235 - And when every stone is laid artfully together, it cannot be united into a continuity, it can but be contiguous in this world...
Seite 206 - As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary...
Seite 68 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...
Seite 423 - Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall; and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
Seite 194 - ... and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
Seite 211 - There must be licensing dancers, that no gesture, motion or deportment be taught our youth but what by their allowance shall be thought honest; for such Plato was provided of.
Seite 235 - When they have branched themselves out, saith he, small enough into parties and partitions, then will be our time. Fool ! he sees not the firm root, out of which we all grow, though into branches: nor will beware until he see our small divided maniples cutting through at every angle of his ill-united and unwieldy brigade.