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... Italian Poems of Mil- ton , translated by Cowper , with some Fragments of his Dis- sertations on the Paradise Lost , ' shortly to be published in quarto at the price of two guineas , is to be applied to raise a fund for the education ...
... Italian Poems of Mil- ton , translated by Cowper , with some Fragments of his Dis- sertations on the Paradise Lost , ' shortly to be published in quarto at the price of two guineas , is to be applied to raise a fund for the education ...
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... Italy or in Holland during the last campaign against France , it is pro- bable that the battle of Austerlitz would never have been fought , or would have been attended with a very different result . Naples would not have been engulphed ...
... Italy or in Holland during the last campaign against France , it is pro- bable that the battle of Austerlitz would never have been fought , or would have been attended with a very different result . Naples would not have been engulphed ...
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... Italy , which are subject to great rains , and is about four times the average quantity of what falls in England . The author also mentions a kind of whinstone , called kunkur , which consists of 40 parts of air , 41 calcareous earth ...
... Italy , which are subject to great rains , and is about four times the average quantity of what falls in England . The author also mentions a kind of whinstone , called kunkur , which consists of 40 parts of air , 41 calcareous earth ...
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... Italian authors , he would have confer- red a much greater benefit on the English students of the Italian language ... Italy , and to such we may safely recommend them as worthy their attention . ART . 39. - A Synoptical Compend of ...
... Italian authors , he would have confer- red a much greater benefit on the English students of the Italian language ... Italy , and to such we may safely recommend them as worthy their attention . ART . 39. - A Synoptical Compend of ...
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... Italian of Gaetano Filangieri . Svo . 2 vols . Ostell . 1806 . IT has been remarked , that while in every other science and in every mechanical art , a long experience and much la- bour is allowed to be necessary for the attainment of ...
... Italian of Gaetano Filangieri . Svo . 2 vols . Ostell . 1806 . IT has been remarked , that while in every other science and in every mechanical art , a long experience and much la- bour is allowed to be necessary for the attainment of ...
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Page 353 - It therefore astonishes me, sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does ; and I think it will astonish our enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear that our councils are confounded, like those of the builders of Babel ; and that our states are on the point of separation, only to meet hereafter for the purpose of cutting one another's throats.
Page 353 - I think a general government necessary for us, and there is no form of government but what may be a blessing to the people, if well administered; and I believe, further, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.
Page 353 - For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is therefore that the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others.
Page 353 - I confess that there are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them. For, having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
Page 354 - On the whole, sir, I cannot help expressing a wish that every member of the Convention who may still have objections to it would, with me, on this occasion doubt a little of his own infallibility, and, to make manifest our unanimity, put his name to this instrument.
Page 354 - Much of the strength and efficiency of any government in procuring and securing happiness to the people depends on opinion, on the general opinion of the goodness of that government as well as of the wisdom and integrity of its governors.
Page 243 - God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist. The taking away of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all.
Page 125 - See all its store of inland waters hurl'd In one vast volume down Niagara's steep, Or calm behold them, in transparent sleep, Where the blue hills of old Toronto shed Their evening shadows o'er Ontario's bed...
Page 353 - Constitution: for when you assemble a number of men, to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views.
Page 353 - But though many private persons think almost as highly of their own infallibility as of that of their sect, few express it so naturally as a certain French lady, who in a dispute with her sister, said: 'I don't know how it happens, sister, but I meet with nobody but myself that is always in the right.