The British Plutarch [by T. Mortimer].Samuel Archer, 1810 |
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... letter to the bishop of Ban- gor on this occasion began the Bangorian controversy ; but it may be said to have taken its rise from the seizing a number of copies of " A Collection of papers , " written by Dr. Hickes , in 1716 , designed ...
... letter to the bishop of Ban- gor on this occasion began the Bangorian controversy ; but it may be said to have taken its rise from the seizing a number of copies of " A Collection of papers , " written by Dr. Hickes , in 1716 , designed ...
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... Letter from the bishop of Winchester , to -Clement Chevallier , esq . " wherein he gave a very particular and ... letters , from several of the greatest lawyers of the age . We are informed by the bishop's narrative , that Fournier pre ...
... Letter from the bishop of Winchester , to -Clement Chevallier , esq . " wherein he gave a very particular and ... letters , from several of the greatest lawyers of the age . We are informed by the bishop's narrative , that Fournier pre ...
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... letters about his cause . When he came to town , he told Fournier , that he saw no reason to alter his judgment ; and added , that it was ne- cessary for him to go immediately to his curacy in Jersey , or to quit it , To this Fournier ...
... letters about his cause . When he came to town , he told Fournier , that he saw no reason to alter his judgment ; and added , that it was ne- cessary for him to go immediately to his curacy in Jersey , or to quit it , To this Fournier ...
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... letters were inclosed , when he was artfully led into an epistolary correspon- dence . In short , the concurring evidence of his guilt , was more than sufficient to warrant the decree of a court of equity against Fournier , Our prelate ...
... letters were inclosed , when he was artfully led into an epistolary correspon- dence . In short , the concurring evidence of his guilt , was more than sufficient to warrant the decree of a court of equity against Fournier , Our prelate ...
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... Letters to a Friend , on the Life in Vogue . " An explana- tion of this singular title , will throw some light on the nature of the work ; and the author himself has thus given it to his readers ; * The men of pleasure , " says he , the ...
... Letters to a Friend , on the Life in Vogue . " An explana- tion of this singular title , will throw some light on the nature of the work ; and the author himself has thus given it to his readers ; * The men of pleasure , " says he , the ...
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282. oldal - How blest is he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly...
151. oldal - I do; I know their virtues and their valor; I know they can achieve anything but impossibilities; and I know that the conquest of British America is an impossibility. You cannot, my Lords, you cannot conquer America. What is your present situation there ? We do not know the worst; but we know that in three campaigns we have done nothing, and suffered much.
206. oldal - Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.
278. oldal - Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail, Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale ; Or press the bashful stranger to his food, And learn the luxury of doing good.
147. oldal - For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies...
278. oldal - REMOTE, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po ; Or onward, where the rude Carinthian boor Against the houseless stranger shuts the door ; Or where Campania's plain forsaken lies, A weary waste expanding to the skies ; Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravell'd fondly turns to thee ; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
92. oldal - So that, upon the whole, we may conclude, that the Christian Religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity : And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience.
146. oldal - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
152. oldal - To call into civilized alliance the wild and inhuman savage of the woods ; to delegate to the merciless Indian the defence of disputed rights, and to wage the horrors of his barbarous war against our brethren?
152. oldal - If I were an American as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never, never, never!