Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects: essays, moral, political and literary, Band 1Bell & Bradfute, 1825 - 544 Seiten |
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... labour of so many centuries , repaired at the expense of so many millions , and cemented by such a profusion of blooda ; say , if our constitution does in any degree deserve these eulogies , it would never have suffered a wicked and ...
... labour of so many centuries , repaired at the expense of so many millions , and cemented by such a profusion of blooda ; say , if our constitution does in any degree deserve these eulogies , it would never have suffered a wicked and ...
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... labour . But a man possessed of L.100,000 a - year , if he has either any generosity , or any cunning , may create a great dependence by obligations , and still a greater by expectations . Hence we may ob- serve , that , in all free ...
... labour . But a man possessed of L.100,000 a - year , if he has either any generosity , or any cunning , may create a great dependence by obligations , and still a greater by expectations . Hence we may ob- serve , that , in all free ...
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... labour of the kingdom . When we add to this great property , the increasing luxury of the nation , our proneness to cor- ruption , together with the great power and prerogatives of the crown , and the command of military force , there ...
... labour of the kingdom . When we add to this great property , the increasing luxury of the nation , our proneness to cor- ruption , together with the great power and prerogatives of the crown , and the command of military force , there ...
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... labour to make himself ridiculous . I am ready to own , that this circumstance , of the mul- tiplicity and intricacy of laws , is a discouragement to elo- quence in modern times : But I assert , that it will not en- tirely account for ...
... labour to make himself ridiculous . I am ready to own , that this circumstance , of the mul- tiplicity and intricacy of laws , is a discouragement to elo- quence in modern times : But I assert , that it will not en- tirely account for ...
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... labour : Time must bring it to perfection : And the feeling of inconveniences must correct the mistakes , which they inevitably fall into , in their first trials and experiments . Hence appears the impossibility , that this undertaking ...
... labour : Time must bring it to perfection : And the feeling of inconveniences must correct the mistakes , which they inevitably fall into , in their first trials and experiments . Hence appears the impossibility , that this undertaking ...
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