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... English bar , who was under obligations to his father for his active services in promoting his election as a Mem- ber of Parliament for the city of Worcester . Win- nington is described by Burnet as a lawyer who had risen from small ...
... English bar , who was under obligations to his father for his active services in promoting his election as a Mem- ber of Parliament for the city of Worcester . Win- nington is described by Burnet as a lawyer who had risen from small ...
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... Somers was not inattentive to polite literature ; he published a trans- lation of some of Ovid's Epistles into English verse , which at the same time that it shows that he could never have borne so distinguished a rank as a poet SOMERS . 5.
... Somers was not inattentive to polite literature ; he published a trans- lation of some of Ovid's Epistles into English verse , which at the same time that it shows that he could never have borne so distinguished a rank as a poet SOMERS . 5.
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... English pirates in the West Indies , who had . plundered several merchant ships , it was determined to send out a ship of war for the purpose of de- stroying them . But as there was no fund to bear the charge of such an expedition , the ...
... English pirates in the West Indies , who had . plundered several merchant ships , it was determined to send out a ship of war for the purpose of de- stroying them . But as there was no fund to bear the charge of such an expedition , the ...
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... English Church ; and for this of- fence he was imprisoned for some time in the Tower . During this confinement , he composed No Cross , No Crown , ' one of his principal and most popular works , of which the leading doctrine , admirably ...
... English Church ; and for this of- fence he was imprisoned for some time in the Tower . During this confinement , he composed No Cross , No Crown , ' one of his principal and most popular works , of which the leading doctrine , admirably ...
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... English church , and could not be affected by dis- crepancies in their religious belief . He maintained that " to live honestly , to do no injury to another , and to give every man his due , was enough to entitle every native to English ...
... English church , and could not be affected by dis- crepancies in their religious belief . He maintained that " to live honestly , to do no injury to another , and to give every man his due , was enough to entitle every native to English ...
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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 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 274 - Pitt was then one of the poor; and to him Heaven directed a portion of the wealth of the haughty Dowager. She left him a legacy of ten thousand pounds, in consideration of " the noble defence he had made for the support of the laws of England, and to prevent the ruin of his country.
Page 107 - The Original Power of the Collective Body of the People of England Examined and Asserted ; the other, The Freeholder's Plea against the Stock-jobbing Elections of Parliament-men.
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 478 - 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.
Page 156 - ... you have made my system as clear as I ought to have done, and could not. It is indeed the same system as mine, but illustrated with a ray of your own, as they say our natural body is the same still when it is glorified.