Miscellaneous essays. Political tracts. A journey to the Western islands of ScotlandLuke Hansard & Sons, 1810 |
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... rich . They are not pained by casual incivility , or mortified by the mu- tilation of a compliment ; but this happiness is like that of a malefactor , who ceases to feel the cords that bind him when the pincers are tearing his flesh ...
... rich . They are not pained by casual incivility , or mortified by the mu- tilation of a compliment ; but this happiness is like that of a malefactor , who ceases to feel the cords that bind him when the pincers are tearing his flesh ...
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... rich , none could have submitted to the commands " of another , or the necessary drudgeries of life ; " thence all governments must have been dissolved , " arts neglected , and lands uncultivated , and so an " universal penury have ...
... rich , none could have submitted to the commands " of another , or the necessary drudgeries of life ; " thence all governments must have been dissolved , " arts neglected , and lands uncultivated , and so an " universal penury have ...
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... rich ; another because he is poor ; one to show that he is not afraid , and another to show that he can write . The passage , however , is not always smooth . Those who collect contributions to sedition , some- times apply to a man of ...
... rich ; another because he is poor ; one to show that he is not afraid , and another to show that he can write . The passage , however , is not always smooth . Those who collect contributions to sedition , some- times apply to a man of ...
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... rich by trading between Asia and Europe , and not lying upon the ocean , did not desire to seek by great hazards , at a distance , what was almost at home to be found with safety . The English alone were animated by the success of the ...
... rich by trading between Asia and Europe , and not lying upon the ocean , did not desire to seek by great hazards , at a distance , what was almost at home to be found with safety . The English alone were animated by the success of the ...
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... rich by the victory , he might show his gains with- out envy . But at the conclusion of a ten years war , how are we recompensed for the death of mul- titudes and the expense of millions , but by contem- plating the sudden glories of ...
... rich by the victory , he might show his gains with- out envy . But at the conclusion of a ten years war , how are we recompensed for the death of mul- titudes and the expense of millions , but by contem- plating the sudden glories of ...
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Page 204 - His violent prejudice against our West Indian and American settlers appeared whenever there was an opportunity. Towards the conclusion of his " Taxation no Tyranny," he says, " how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
Page 71 - that having been in this session of parliament expelled this house, he was and is incapable of being elected a member to serve in this present parliament.
Page 177 - British parliament, as are, bona fide, restrained to the regulation of our external commerce, for the purpose of securing the commercial advantages of the whole empire to the mother country, and the commercial benefits of its respective members ; excluding every idea of taxation, internal or external, for raising a revenue on the subjects in America, without their consent.
Page 177 - ... as the English colonists are not represented, and from their local and other circumstances cannot properly be represented in the British parliament, they are entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation in their several provincial legislatures...
Page 174 - That they are entitled to life, liberty, and property, and they have never ceded to any sovereign power whatever, a right to dispose of either without their consent.
Page 390 - ... has not made the experiment, or who is not accustomed to require rigorous accuracy from himself, will scarcely believe how much a few hours take from certainty of knowledge, and distinctness of imagery ; how the succession of objects will be broken, how separate parts will be confused, and how many particular features and discriminations will be compressed and conglobated into one gross and general idea.
Page 273 - We came thither too late to see what we expected, a people of peculiar appearance, and a system of antiquated life. The clans retain little now of their original character, their ferocity of temper is softened, their military ardour is extinguished, their dignity of independence is depressed, their contempt of government subdued, and the reverence for their chiefs abated.
Page 176 - That, by such emigration, they by no means forfeited, surrendered, or lost, any of those rights, but that they were, and their descendants now are, entitled to the exercise and enjoyment of all such of them, as their local and other circumstances enable them to exercise and enjoy.
Page 251 - We were in this place at ease and by choice, and had no evils to suffer or to fear; yet the imaginations excited by the view of an unknown and untravelled wilderness are not such as arise in the artificial solitude of parks and gardens...
Page 352 - ... always feel their own ignorance. They are not much accustomed to be interrogated by others : and seem never to have thought upon interrogating themselves ; so that if they do not know what they tell to be true, they likewise do not distinctly perceive it to be false. Mr. Boswell was very diligent in his inquiries ; and the result of his investigations was, that the answer to the second question was commonly such as nullified the answer to the first.