 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 452 páginas
...advertife his fale of flaves. But let us fuppofe all thefe moral difficulties got over. The ocean remain?. You cannot pump this dry ; and as long as it continues in its prefent bed, fo long all the caufes which weaken authority by diftance will continue. " Ye gods, annihilate... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 560 páginas
...all these moral difficulties got ovet. The ocean remains. You cannot pump this dry ; and as long aa it continues in its present bed, so long all the causes...which weaken authority by distance will continue. l* Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, and make two. lovers happy . " — was a pious and passionate... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 518 páginas
...same instant to publish his proclamation of liberty, and to advertise his sale of slaves. But let us suppose all these moral difficulties got over. The....passionate prayer; — but just as reasonable, as many of these serious wishes of very grave aixi solemn politicians. If then, sir, it seems almost desperate... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 512 páginas
...same instant to publish his proclamation of liberty, and to advertise his sale of slaves. But let us suppose all these moral difficulties got over. The...bed, so long all the causes which weaken authority by dis.i tance will continue. " Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, and make two lovers happy!" —... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 322 páginas
...had Briareus' hundred hands To wipe those hundred eyes. And that modest request of two absent lovers: Ye Gods! annihilate but Space and Time, And make two lovers happy. To the same class of the Magnifying may be referred the following, which are so excellently modern,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1813 - 768 páginas
...same instant to publish his proclamation of liberty, and to advertise his sale of slaves. But let us suppose all these moral difficulties got over. The...time, and make two lovers happy!" — was a pious and pas501] 503] Debate on Mr. Burke's Resolutions f5M sionate prayer ; — but just as reasonable, as... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 516 páginas
...Briareus's hundred hands To wipe his hundred eyes. J • And that modest request of two absent lovers: Ye gods ! annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy. 2. The PERIPHRASIS, which the moderns call the circumbendibus, whereof we have given examples in the... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1818 - 814 páginas
...Only to save from the melting-pot a few hundreds of antichristian and vice-engendering Sinecures. — Ye Gods, annihilate but space and time, and make two lovers happy ! — Compared with the inward Episcopal prayer included in the above doctrine, this amorous one was... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1819 - 484 páginas
...same instant to publish his proclamation of liberty, and to advertise his sale of slaves. But let us suppose all these moral difficulties got over. The...two lovers happy !" — . was a pious and passionate pr.iyer ; — but just as reasonable as many of the serious wishes of very grave and solemn politicians.... | |
 | 1819 - 544 páginas
...puts me in mind of a noted passage, containing a petition equally reasonable in one of Dryden's plays, Ye Gods! annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy! Again, 1 should be glad to know whether congress meeting for the good of the nation, and having no... | |
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But let us suppose all these moral difficulties got over. The ocean remains. You cannot pump this dry; and as long as it continues in its present bed, so long all the causes which weaken authority by distance will continue. ' Ye gods, annihilate but space... 
