A Miscellany, Containing Several Tracts on Various Subjects, Band 1J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1752 - 267 Seiten |
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... World . An Infant may take one Quarter of a Pint in the Day , warm , by Spoonfuls ; lefs may do good , and there is no fear of Excels . When I confider the private Woe of Families , as well as the public Lofs occafioned by the Death of ...
... World . An Infant may take one Quarter of a Pint in the Day , warm , by Spoonfuls ; lefs may do good , and there is no fear of Excels . When I confider the private Woe of Families , as well as the public Lofs occafioned by the Death of ...
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... World would foon be relieved from that great and general Terror of the Small - pox . When I hear of the Devaftations made by this Diftemper , in great Cities and populous Towns , how many Lives are loft , or ( as may be faid ) thrown ...
... World would foon be relieved from that great and general Terror of the Small - pox . When I hear of the Devaftations made by this Diftemper , in great Cities and populous Towns , how many Lives are loft , or ( as may be faid ) thrown ...
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... World ? But it hath been always obferved of weak Men , that they know not how to avoid one Extreme without run- ning into another . Too many of this Sort pafs upon vulgar Read- ers for great Authors , and Men of profound Thought , not ...
... World ? But it hath been always obferved of weak Men , that they know not how to avoid one Extreme without run- ning into another . Too many of this Sort pafs upon vulgar Read- ers for great Authors , and Men of profound Thought , not ...
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... World ; and perhaps it might be no ill Policy in a Kingdom to form itself upon the Manners of a Republic . Simplicity of Manners may be more eafily pre- served in a Republic than a Monarchy ; but if once loft , may be fooner recovered ...
... World ; and perhaps it might be no ill Policy in a Kingdom to form itself upon the Manners of a Republic . Simplicity of Manners may be more eafily pre- served in a Republic than a Monarchy ; but if once loft , may be fooner recovered ...
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... World , ever knew fuch an expenfive ruinous Folly as our Maskerade . This alone is fufficient to inflame and fatisfy the fe- veral Appetites for Gaming , Dreffing , Intriguing , luxurious Eating and Drinking . It is a moft skil- ful ...
... World , ever knew fuch an expenfive ruinous Folly as our Maskerade . This alone is fufficient to inflame and fatisfy the fe- veral Appetites for Gaming , Dreffing , Intriguing , luxurious Eating and Drinking . It is a moft skil- ful ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 40 - Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, And walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, Walking and mincing as they go, And making a tinkling with their feet...
Seite 186 - In happy climes, the seat of innocence, Where nature guides and virtue rules, Where men shall not impose for truth and sense The pedantry of courts and schools: There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts.
Seite 217 - And this is life eternal, that they may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.
Seite 40 - Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will discover their secret parts. In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments...
Seite 230 - I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and totread them down like the mire of the streets. 7Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so ; but it is in his heart to< destroy and cut off nations not a few.
Seite 91 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Seite 52 - Romans, and superior to each of those people in the perfections of the other. Such were our ancestors during their rise and greatness ; but they degenerated, grew servile flatterers of men in power, adopted Epicurean notions, became venal, corrupt, injurious, which drew upon them the hatred of...
Seite 121 - Whether money is to be considered as having an intrinsic value, or as being a commodity, a standard, a measure, or a pledge, as is variously suggested by writers ? And whether the true idea of money, as such, be not altogether that of a ticket or counter ? 24. Whether the value or price of things, be not a compounded proportion, directly as the demand, and reciprocally as the plenty ? 25.
Seite 121 - Whether the terms crown, livre, pound sterling, &c., are not to be considered as exponents or denominations of such proportion ? And whether gold, silver, and paper, are not tickets or counters for reckoning, recording, and transferring thereof?
Seite 84 - But the youth born and brought up in wicked times, without any bias to good from early principle or instilled opinion, when they grow ripe must be monsters indeed. And it is to be feared, that age of monsters is not far off.