Miscellanies in Prose and VerseJohn Morphew, 1711 - 416 páginas |
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... . These easily uniting in Thoughts and Opinions , and acting in Concert , begin to enter upon Measures for fecuring their Pro- B 2 perties , perties , which are beft upheld by pre paring against in ATHENS and ROME . 3.
... . These easily uniting in Thoughts and Opinions , and acting in Concert , begin to enter upon Measures for fecuring their Pro- B 2 perties , perties , which are beft upheld by pre paring against in ATHENS and ROME . 3.
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... opinion to be Law , which has always been contested , or perhaps never started at all before fuch an incident brought it on the Stage . Not to confent to the Enacting of fuch a Law , which has no to view befides the general Good ...
... opinion to be Law , which has always been contested , or perhaps never started at all before fuch an incident brought it on the Stage . Not to confent to the Enacting of fuch a Law , which has no to view befides the general Good ...
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... Opinion I mentioned a while ago , That publick Conventions are liable to all the Infirmities , Follies and Vi- ces of private Men . To which , if there be any Exception , it must be of fuch Affemblies who act by univerfal Concert , upon ...
... Opinion I mentioned a while ago , That publick Conventions are liable to all the Infirmities , Follies and Vi- ces of private Men . To which , if there be any Exception , it must be of fuch Affemblies who act by univerfal Concert , upon ...
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... Opinions , are ready to comply with general fober Re- fults , tho ' contrary to their own Senti- ments . Whatever Affemblies act by these and other Methods of the like Nature , must be allowed to be exempt from feveral Imperfections to ...
... Opinions , are ready to comply with general fober Re- fults , tho ' contrary to their own Senti- ments . Whatever Affemblies act by these and other Methods of the like Nature , must be allowed to be exempt from feveral Imperfections to ...
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... Opinions he follows and maintains with a Zeal and Faith as violent , as a young Scholar does thofe of a Philofopher ... Opinion not at all congenial with him . THIS encourages me to hope , that during this lucid Interval , the Members ...
... Opinions he follows and maintains with a Zeal and Faith as violent , as a young Scholar does thofe of a Philofopher ... Opinion not at all congenial with him . THIS encourages me to hope , that during this lucid Interval , the Members ...
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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.