Miscellanies in Prose and VerseJohn Morphew, 1711 - 416 páginas |
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... Country , or by the Practice of popular Arts at home , be- comes to have great Influence on the People , to grow their Leader in War- like Expeditions , and to prefide , after a fort , in their Civil Affemblies : And this is grounded ...
... Country , or by the Practice of popular Arts at home , be- comes to have great Influence on the People , to grow their Leader in War- like Expeditions , and to prefide , after a fort , in their Civil Affemblies : And this is grounded ...
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... Country about Attica was the most Bar- ren of any in Greece ; through which means it happened that the Natives were never expelled by the Fury of Invaders , ( who thought it not worth a Conqueft ) but continued always Aborigines ; and ...
... Country about Attica was the most Bar- ren of any in Greece ; through which means it happened that the Natives were never expelled by the Fury of Invaders , ( who thought it not worth a Conqueft ) but continued always Aborigines ; and ...
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... Country , Sas the Prefervers of it , and have had the Veneration of all Ages fince paid justly to their Memories . SMILTIADES was one of the Athenian Generals against the Perfian Power , and the famous Victory at Mara . Marathon was ...
... Country , Sas the Prefervers of it , and have had the Veneration of all Ages fince paid justly to their Memories . SMILTIADES was one of the Athenian Generals against the Perfian Power , and the famous Victory at Mara . Marathon was ...
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... Country in the Wars ; he was a Person of the stricteft Juftice , and beft acquainted with the Laws as well as Forms of their Government , fore he was in a manner the Chan- celor of Athens . This Man upon a fignfalfe Accufation of favour ...
... Country in the Wars ; he was a Person of the stricteft Juftice , and beft acquainted with the Laws as well as Forms of their Government , fore he was in a manner the Chan- celor of Athens . This Man upon a fignfalfe Accufation of favour ...
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... Country had not furmounted its bafe Ingrati- tude to him , he had many Invitations to return at the Head of the Perfian Fleet , and take a terrible Revenge ; " But he rather chofe a voluntary Death . THE People of Athens Impeached ...
... Country had not furmounted its bafe Ingrati- tude to him , he had many Invitations to return at the Head of the Perfian Fleet , and take a terrible Revenge ; " But he rather chofe a voluntary Death . THE People of Athens Impeached ...
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Página 354 - Then the Bell rung, and I went down to put my Lady to Bed, And, God knows, I thought my Money was as safe as my Maidenhead. So when I came up again, I found my Pocket feel very light, But when I search'd, and miss'd my Purse, Lord! I thought I should have sunk outright: Lord! Madam, says Mary, how d'ye do? Indeed...
Página 385 - Twas Madam, in her grogram gown. Philemon was in great surprise, And hardly could believe his eyes, Amaz'd to see her look so prim ; And she admir'd as much at him. Thus happy in their change of life Were several years this man and wife ; When, on a day, which prov'd their...
Página 175 - ... to display their abilities? What wonderful productions of wit should we be deprived of, from those whose genius by continual practice...
Página 232 - Nature sent him into the world strong and lusty, in a thriving condition, wearing his own hair on his head, the proper branches of this reasoning vegetable, until the axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk...
Página 238 - When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Página 153 - Parliament, because that was looked upon as a design to oppose the current of the people, which besides the folly of it, is a manifest breach of the fundamental law that makes this majority of opinion the voice of God.
Página 235 - WE have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Página 356 - So I went to the party suspected, and I found her full of grief; (Now you must know, of all things in the world, I hate a thief). However, I was resolv'd to bring the discourse slily about, Mrs Dukes...
Página 68 - I should think that the saying, Vox populi vox Dei, ought to be understood of the universal bent and current of a People, not of the bare majority of a few representatives ; which is often procured by little arts, and great industry and application ; wherein those, who engage in the pursuits of malice and revenge, are much more sedulous than such as would prevent them.