The Pamphleteer, Volumen 5Abraham John Valpy A. J. Valpy., 1815 |
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... object : he finds a theme for anguish in all he sees or bears . This feeling makes our situation unsettled and painful : all minds dread to reflect on this inmost ulcer of the heart ; notwithstanding twenty years of constant triumph ...
... object : he finds a theme for anguish in all he sees or bears . This feeling makes our situation unsettled and painful : all minds dread to reflect on this inmost ulcer of the heart ; notwithstanding twenty years of constant triumph ...
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... object to enter into bewildering and difficult discussions ; I only say , that the question may be differently determined , accord- ingly to the nature of each country's government , and that some fea- tures are common to all ; such as ...
... object to enter into bewildering and difficult discussions ; I only say , that the question may be differently determined , accord- ingly to the nature of each country's government , and that some fea- tures are common to all ; such as ...
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... object : they are wheels cal- culated to move the machine , and , independently , of no value ; they should be removed , when they only perplex the mechanism and increase the friction . Whatever might be the importance of any one of ...
... object : they are wheels cal- culated to move the machine , and , independently , of no value ; they should be removed , when they only perplex the mechanism and increase the friction . Whatever might be the importance of any one of ...
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... object . On their own ground , the French have always been most powerful ; it must be as danger- ous a post for foreigners , as it is difficult for the French to es- tablish themselves beyond their own land . If we once adopt this ...
... object . On their own ground , the French have always been most powerful ; it must be as danger- ous a post for foreigners , as it is difficult for the French to es- tablish themselves beyond their own land . If we once adopt this ...
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... object : and thus the liberty of thought and communication will be doubly serviceable ; to suppress error and intrigue , and to indicate the value of men and things . Such would be the natural effect of the liberty of the press ; and if ...
... object : and thus the liberty of thought and communication will be doubly serviceable ; to suppress error and intrigue , and to indicate the value of men and things . Such would be the natural effect of the liberty of the press ; and if ...
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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...