The Pamphleteer, Band 3Abraham John Valpy A. J. Valpy., 1814 |
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... persons in France who might be inclined to call in question their real intentions . It would seem that the course which the allies have now to pursue is sufficiently obvious ; viz . to reduce France to her old monarchical limits ...
... persons in France who might be inclined to call in question their real intentions . It would seem that the course which the allies have now to pursue is sufficiently obvious ; viz . to reduce France to her old monarchical limits ...
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... person capable of forming a comparative estimate of the respective advantages of the combatants , the issue of the conflict still appear to be involved in anxious doubt ? If then such fears are well founded , when the whole strength of ...
... person capable of forming a comparative estimate of the respective advantages of the combatants , the issue of the conflict still appear to be involved in anxious doubt ? If then such fears are well founded , when the whole strength of ...
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... persons ' who held high stations in the Company's service for many years , and who , from having lived so long , and having had so much inter- course with them , must be supposed to have been perfectly ac- quainted with their real ...
... persons ' who held high stations in the Company's service for many years , and who , from having lived so long , and having had so much inter- course with them , must be supposed to have been perfectly ac- quainted with their real ...
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... person , above the rank of a menial servant . It is not , perhaps , unworthy of notice , that a character equally unfavorable of the natives of Hindostan , was given four hundred years ago by their great conqueror , Tamerlane . " The ...
... person , above the rank of a menial servant . It is not , perhaps , unworthy of notice , that a character equally unfavorable of the natives of Hindostan , was given four hundred years ago by their great conqueror , Tamerlane . " The ...
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... person , Sir William Jones , who carried with him to this country a prejudice in favor of the natives , which he naturally imbibed in the course of his studies , and which in him , though not perfectly rational , was neither unamiable ...
... person , Sir William Jones , who carried with him to this country a prejudice in favor of the natives , which he naturally imbibed in the course of his studies , and which in him , though not perfectly rational , was neither unamiable ...
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Seite 70 - Our own felicity we make or find : With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel, To men remote from power but rarely known, Leave reason, faith, and conscience, all our own.
Seite 220 - ... yield unto the hired person both in the time of scarcity and in the time of plenty a convenient proportion of Wages.
Seite 475 - Such an act, That blurs the grace and blush of modesty; Calls virtue, hypocrite; takes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love, And sets a blister there"; makes marriage vows As false as dicers...
Seite 103 - European enemy may make upon us in that quarter, let us endeavour to strike our roots into the soil, by the gradual introduction and establishment of our own principles and opinions; of our own laws, institutions, and manners; above all, as the source of every other improvement, of our religion, and consequently of our morals..
Seite 126 - ... like, — is in a state of mere nature vested in every individual. For it must be vested in somebody, otherwise the laws of nature would be vain and fruitless, if none were empowered to put them in execution ; and if that power is vested in any one, it must also be vested in all mankind, since all are by nature equal. Whereof the first murderer Cain, was so sensible, that we find him expressing his apprehensions, that whoever should find him would slay him (A).
Seite 219 - ... chiefly for that the wages and allowances limited and rated in many of the said statutes, are in divers places too small and not answerable to this time, respecting the advancement of prices of all things belonging to the said servants and labourers ; the said laws cannot conveniently, without the great grief and burden of the poor labourer and hired man, be put in good and due execution...
Seite 359 - If I may presume to speak my own sentiments, I once believed this doctrine of ideas so firmly as to embrace the whole of Berkeley's system in consequence of it; till, finding other consequences to follow from it, which gave me more uneasiness than the want of a material world, it came into my mind, more than forty years ago, to put the question, What evidence have I for this doctrine, that all the objects of my knowledge are ideas in my own mind? From that time to the present I have been candidly...
Seite 66 - I am sensible that a great deal must be done to eradicate the seeds of these crimes. The real source of the evil lies in the corrupt morals of the people. Under these circumstances, the best laws can only have a partial operation. If we would apply a lasting remedy to the evil, we must adopt means of instruction for the different classes of the community.
Seite 84 - ... has in contemplation still greater enterprises. All this time, sir, he is labouring indefatigably as a missionary, with a warmth of zeal only equalled by that with which he prosecutes his literary labours. Another of these Anabaptist missionaries, Mr. Marshman, has established a seminary for the cultivation of the Chinese language, which he has studied with a success scarcely inferior to that of Dr. Carey in the...
Seite 78 - Hindu divinities were absolute monsters of lust, injustice, wickedness, and cruelty. In short, their religious system is one grand...