Memoirs of John Horne Tooke: Interspersed with Original Documents, Band 2

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J. Johnson, 1813 - 477 Seiten
 

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Seite 449 - 3. vent the two great evils of modern society, drunkenness and gaming. He would then out: " O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee— devil! O that men should put an enemy
Seite 450 - O that men should put an enemy iu their mouths to steal away their brains !• that we should, with joy, revel, pleasure, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts * !" On the other hand, he could find classical authority for
Seite 280 - Glynn, and Dunning. I suspect, that the " Humble Address, Remonstrance, and Petition, of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the City of London, in Common Council assembled," presented by him in 177°, was drawn up, either in whole or in part, by Mr. Home. Mr. Brass Crosby, after acquiring an
Seite 449 - In my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors to my blood; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly *." He then exclaimed against wine, and indulged in commendations of Mahomet, who, with a code infinitely inferior to that of Christianity, had been fortunate enough to prohibit and
Seite 254 - were called to the bar. After a report had been delivered in, it was moved, " That the speaker do issue a warrant to the clerk of the crown, to make out a new writ for the borough of Old
Seite 463 - would then address himself to the company, and affect to condemn his own suspicions in the language of his favourite bard : —-" I do beseech you, Though I—perchance, am vicious in my guess, (As I confess, it is my nature's plague, To spy into abuses; and oft, my jealousy Shapes faults that are not) that your wisdom yet, From one that so imperfectly conceits, Would take no
Seite 77 - before his assembled judges, in Westminster Hall: " I gave you all, and you have rewarded me with confiscation, disgrace, and a life of impeachment:" a man worn out by ten years' infirmities and persecution, could not fail to make a deep impression on his judges. Mr. Tooke thought a single day was sufficient for the detection of the
Seite 34 - that leave be given to bring in a bill, for a just and equal representation of the people of England in parliament," which appears to have been then a hopeless measure, as it was not pressed even to a division. In 1782, this question, as has been already
Seite 59 - the neighing of a horse, the lowing of a cow, the barking of a dog, the purring of a cat, sneezing, coughing, groaning, shrieking, and every other involuntary convulsion with oral sound, has almost as good a title to be called parts of speech as interjections have." The four next chapters, relative to the word "THAT," "conjunctions,
Seite 338 - without any human testimony, we know must proceed from God ; and upon these are founded the RIGHTS of man, or what is ordered for man. I revere the constitution and constitutional LAWS of England; because they are in conformity with the LAWS of God and nature; and upon these are founded the rational RIGHTS of Englishmen.

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