The Pamphleteer, Volumen 5Abraham John Valpy A. J. Valpy., 1815 |
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... natural and troth - plight defenders , had fled from him ? Is it not plain , that they would have needlessly sacrificed ... nature , while your- selves set the example of felony and desertion . Louis , on his trial , was no longer king ...
... natural and troth - plight defenders , had fled from him ? Is it not plain , that they would have needlessly sacrificed ... nature , while your- selves set the example of felony and desertion . Louis , on his trial , was no longer king ...
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... nature seems to have enrooted in the human heart , an instinctive passion for military fame : it reverberates ... natural protectors , the props of its glory ; because it was wont to regard its prince as the noblest of cavaliers . The ...
... nature seems to have enrooted in the human heart , an instinctive passion for military fame : it reverberates ... natural protectors , the props of its glory ; because it was wont to regard its prince as the noblest of cavaliers . The ...
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... nature , Man is only cruel by necessity . In a state of society , he is wilfully so , to satiate his caprices , and to allay the host of passions that spring up from his intercourse with his fellow- creatures . Undoubtedly , I do not ...
... nature , Man is only cruel by necessity . In a state of society , he is wilfully so , to satiate his caprices , and to allay the host of passions that spring up from his intercourse with his fellow- creatures . Undoubtedly , I do not ...
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... natural liberty . But experience also proves , that under the other extreme of absolute despotism , science ... nature of each country's government , and that some fea- tures are common to all ; such as the regulation of finance ...
... natural liberty . But experience also proves , that under the other extreme of absolute despotism , science ... nature of each country's government , and that some fea- tures are common to all ; such as the regulation of finance ...
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... nature ravenous , and a beast of prey ; nor has there been any king , however praised and esteemed , who could be compared with Epaminondas , Pericles , Themistocles , or Marcus Curius , or Amilcar surnamed Barca . " 5. - Page 11. See ...
... nature ravenous , and a beast of prey ; nor has there been any king , however praised and esteemed , who could be compared with Epaminondas , Pericles , Themistocles , or Marcus Curius , or Amilcar surnamed Barca . " 5. - Page 11. See ...
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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...