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... written at the time when the proposal to bring in a Bill to exclude the Duke of York from the succession occupied universal attention , and excited the most intense interest . The object of Mr. Somers's tract was to exhibit the ...
... written at the time when the proposal to bring in a Bill to exclude the Duke of York from the succession occupied universal attention , and excited the most intense interest . The object of Mr. Somers's tract was to exhibit the ...
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... writing and in preaching , as the missionary of his sect , both escaped injury , and ac- quired reputation and esteem by his self - devotion . To the favour of the King and the Duke of York he had a hereditary claim , which appears ...
... writing and in preaching , as the missionary of his sect , both escaped injury , and ac- quired reputation and esteem by his self - devotion . To the favour of the King and the Duke of York he had a hereditary claim , which appears ...
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... written home to the Society of Free Traders to Pennsylvania . He held frequent conferences with the Indians , and contracted treaties of friendship with nineteen distinct tribes . His reasons for returning to England appear to have been ...
... written home to the Society of Free Traders to Pennsylvania . He held frequent conferences with the Indians , and contracted treaties of friendship with nineteen distinct tribes . His reasons for returning to England appear to have been ...
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... writing , from which he seldom had a long respite . His course as a philanthropist on his return to America is honourably marked by an endeavour to ameliorate the condition of Negro slaves . The society of Quakers in Pennsylvania had ...
... writing , from which he seldom had a long respite . His course as a philanthropist on his return to America is honourably marked by an endeavour to ameliorate the condition of Negro slaves . The society of Quakers in Pennsylvania had ...
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... writing a history of the Isle of Man , and who bequeathed his papers to Addison , containing , among other things , the plan of a tragedy on the death of So- crates , which the legatee had some thoughts of working up himself . In this ...
... writing a history of the Isle of Man , and who bequeathed his papers to Addison , containing , among other things , the plan of a tragedy on the death of So- crates , which the legatee had some thoughts of working up himself . In this ...
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Page 168 - His Tale of a Tub has little resemblance to his other pieces. It exhibits a vehemence and rapidity of mind, a copiousness of images, and vivacity of diction, such as he afterwards never possessed or never exerted. It is of a mode so distinct and peculiar, that it must be considered by itself; what is true of that, is not true of anything else which he has written.
Page 107 - The original Power of the Collective Body of the People of England examined and asserted...
Page 284 - I know that the conquest of English America is an impossibility. You cannot, I venture to say it, you cannot conquer America.
Page 489 - I should grieve to see Reynolds transfer to heroes and to goddesses, to empty splendour and to airy fiction, that art which is now employed in diffusing friendship, in renewing tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead.
Page 158 - After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a poet, otherwise than by asking in return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?
Page 44 - It is not uncommon, for those who have grown wise by the labour of others, to add a little of their own, and overlook their masters. Addison is now despised by some who perhaps would never have seen his defects, but by the lights which he afforded them.
Page 242 - Millar told me that in a twelvemonth he sold only forty-five copies of it. I scarcely, indeed, heard of one man in the three kingdoms, considerable for rank or letters, that could endure the book.
Page 149 - Miscellany, in a volume which began with the pastorals of Philips, and ended with those of Pope. The same year was written the Essay on Criticism ; a work which displays such extent of comprehension, such nicety of distinction, such acquaintance with mankind, and such knowledge both of ancient and modern learning, as are not often attained by the maturest age and longest experience. It was published about two years afterwards ; and being praised by Addison in the Spectator* with sufficient liberality,...
Page 480 - Sir Joshua Reynolds was on very many accounts one of the most memorable men of his time. He was the first Englishman who added the praise of the elegant arts to the other glories of his country.
Page 42 - I must confess I am amazed that the press should be only made use of in this way by news-writers, and the zealots of parties : as if it were not more advantageous to mankind, to be instructed in wisdom and virtue, than in politics ; and to be made good fathers, husbands, and sons, than counsellors and statesmen.