The Pamphleteer, Volumen 5Abraham John Valpy A. J. Valpy., 1815 |
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... appears illegitimate : to the partisans of absolute power , all liberty , however qualified , seems extravagant . The former class repine at the yoke of government ; the latter do not perceive on what principle their authority can be ...
... appears illegitimate : to the partisans of absolute power , all liberty , however qualified , seems extravagant . The former class repine at the yoke of government ; the latter do not perceive on what principle their authority can be ...
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... appear at court with distinction , beware of saying that you are one of the twenty five millions of citizens , who defended their country with some courage against the invasion of enemies ; for you will be told , that these twenty ...
... appear at court with distinction , beware of saying that you are one of the twenty five millions of citizens , who defended their country with some courage against the invasion of enemies ; for you will be told , that these twenty ...
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... appear to have , in the eyes of those who may honor it with their criticism . I consider the evidences of a distinct mind to be so various , and satisfactory , that they must remove every doubt if we but advance to examine them in the ...
... appear to have , in the eyes of those who may honor it with their criticism . I consider the evidences of a distinct mind to be so various , and satisfactory , that they must remove every doubt if we but advance to examine them in the ...
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... appear very presumptuous to say , that more might have been done ; but at all risks I am compelled to think , that he turned off at the next step to a mighty truth ; which , also , I suppose nothing could have hid from him , except that ...
... appear very presumptuous to say , that more might have been done ; but at all risks I am compelled to think , that he turned off at the next step to a mighty truth ; which , also , I suppose nothing could have hid from him , except that ...
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... appear- ance , is a feeling with some figure : -and , if the very nature of figure is different from feeling ( as both Dr. Reid and I maintain it is ) is it not the height of absurdity to suppose one set of figures really extended , and ...
... appear- ance , is a feeling with some figure : -and , if the very nature of figure is different from feeling ( as both Dr. Reid and I maintain it is ) is it not the height of absurdity to suppose one set of figures really extended , and ...
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Página 96 - And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation ; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you ; as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
Página 545 - In a prison, the awe of the public eye is lost, and the power of the law is spent ; there are few fears, there are no blushes. The lewd inflame the lewd, the audacious harden the audacious. Every one fortifies himself as he can against his own sensibility, endeavours to practise on others the arts which are practised on himself ; and gains the kindness of his associates by similitude of manners.
Página 396 - The rites of hospitality being thus performed towards a stranger in distress; my worthy benefactress (pointing to the mat, and telling me I might sleep there without apprehension) called to the female part of her family...
Página 523 - They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with death; for they allege, that care and vigilance, with a very common understanding, may preserve a man's goods from thieves, but honesty hath no fence against superior cunning...
Página 536 - There are two capital faults in our law with relation to civil debts. One is, that every man is presumed solvent. A presumption, in innumerable cases, directly against truth. Therefore the debtor is ordered, on a supposition of ability and fraud, to be coerced his liberty until he makes payment.
Página 541 - ... the public stock. The confinement, therefore, of any man in the sloth and darkness of a prison, is a loss to the nation, and no gain to the creditor. For of the multitudes who are pining in those cells of misery, a very small part is suspected of any fraudulent act by which they retain what belongs to others.
Página 397 - The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk — no wife to grind his corn.
Página 352 - An account of the proceedings of the British and other Protestant inhabitants of the province of Quebeck, in North America, in order to obtain an House of Assembly in that province.
Página 538 - His plan is original ; and it is as full of genius as it is of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery ; a circumnavigation of charity. Already the benefit of his labour is felt more or less in every country; I hope he will anticipate his final reward, by seeing all its effects fully realized in his own. He will receive, not by...