History of the Revolution in England in 1688, Band 1Baudry's European Library, 1834 - 403 Seiten |
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... House . - Oxford Uni- versity College . - Christ Church . - Exeter College , Cambridge . - Magdalen Col- lege , Oxon . Declaration of Liberty of Conscience . - Similar Attempts of Charles . -Proclamation at Edinburgh . - Resistance of ...
... House . - Oxford Uni- versity College . - Christ Church . - Exeter College , Cambridge . - Magdalen Col- lege , Oxon . Declaration of Liberty of Conscience . - Similar Attempts of Charles . -Proclamation at Edinburgh . - Resistance of ...
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... House of Commons . He cultivated literature without incidents or disputes , and spoke in Parliament without participation in the counsels , either of party or of the government . The following notice , therefore , contains little that ...
... House of Commons . He cultivated literature without incidents or disputes , and spoke in Parliament without participation in the counsels , either of party or of the government . The following notice , therefore , contains little that ...
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... house of a wine - merchant , also named Fraser , in Clipstone Street . This residence proved one of the fortunate circumstances of his life . It led to his acquaintance with Miss Stuart , whom he married in January , 1789 ; NOTICE OF ...
... house of a wine - merchant , also named Fraser , in Clipstone Street . This residence proved one of the fortunate circumstances of his life . It led to his acquaintance with Miss Stuart , whom he married in January , 1789 ; NOTICE OF ...
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... house at Ealing , and undertook the hardy task of answering Burke's “ Re- flections on the French Revolution . " He had a host of competitors already in the field . There were not wanting prudent counsellors who would divert him from a ...
... house at Ealing , and undertook the hardy task of answering Burke's “ Re- flections on the French Revolution . " He had a host of competitors already in the field . There were not wanting prudent counsellors who would divert him from a ...
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... into libels on the constitution and the laws . Dr. Price had asserted ( I presume without fear of contradiction ) , that the House of Hanover owes the crown of England to the choice of AND SPEECHES OF SIR J. MACKINTOSH . 15.
... into libels on the constitution and the laws . Dr. Price had asserted ( I presume without fear of contradiction ) , that the House of Hanover owes the crown of England to the choice of AND SPEECHES OF SIR J. MACKINTOSH . 15.
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Seite 99 - All this, I know well enough, will sound wild and chimerical to the profane herd of those vulgar and mechanical politicians who have no place among us, a sort of people who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material, and who therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine.
Seite 299 - ... a Liberty to Tender Consciences and that no man shall be disquieted or called in question for differences of opinion in matters of religion which do not disturb the peace of the kingdom...
Seite 301 - ... making no doubt of the concurrence of our two Houses of Parliament when we shall think it convenient for them to meet.
Seite 46 - Some of them, indeed, the basest of the race, the sophists, the rhetors, the poet-laureates of murder, who were cruel only from cowardice and calculating selfishness, are perfectly willing to transfer their venal pens to any government that does not disdain their infamous support. These men, republicans from servility, who published rhetorical panegyrics on massacre, and who reduced plunder to a system of ethics, are as ready to preach slavery as anarchy. But the more daring, I had almost said the...
Seite 140 - The purpose of the physical sciences throughout all their provinces, is to answer the question What is '? They consist only of facts arranged according to their likeness, and expressed by general names given to every class of similar facts. The purpose of the moral sciences is to answer the question What ought to be...
Seite 50 - She became prudent from affection; and though of the most generous nature, she was taught economy and frugality by her love for me. During the most critical period of my life, she preserved order in my affairs, from the care of which she relieved me. She gently reclaimed me from dissipation; she propped my weak and irresolute nature; she urged my indolence to all the exertions that have been useful or creditable to me; and she was perpetually at hand to admonish my heedlessness and improvidence....
Seite 75 - ... consummate judge could only have been struck with the exquisite justness of his ideas, and the transparent simplicity of his manners. But no sooner had he spoken for some time, than he was changed into another being. He forgot himself and every thing around him. He thonght only of his subject.
Seite 30 - The perfect composition, the nervous language, the well-turned periods of Dr. Robertson, inflamed me to the ambitious hope that I might one day tread in his footsteps: the calm philosophy, the careless inimitable beauties of his friend and rival, often forced me to close the volume with a mixed sensation of delight and despair.
Seite 294 - October, for the purpose of this royal visitation ; and the object of it was opened by Cartwright, in a speech full of anger and menace. Hough maintained his own rights and those of his college with equal decorum and firmness. On being asked whether he submitted to the visitation, he answered, " We submit to it as far as it is consistent with the laws of the land and the statutes of the college, but no farther. There neither is nor can be a president as long as I live and obey the statutes.
Seite 23 - He seemed to feel, and even to envy, the happiness of my situation ; while I admired the powers of a superior man, as they are blended in his attractive character with the softness and simplicity of a child. Perhaps no human being was ever more perfectly exempt from the taint of malevolence, vanity, or falsehood.