The Pamphleteer, Volumen 13Abraham John Valpy A. J. Valpy., 1818 |
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... least efficient form strongly indicated a disposition unfavorable to the inquiry , and excited the vigilance , if not the suspicions , of its friends towards the manner in which the powers conferred by it should be executed . We are now ...
... least efficient form strongly indicated a disposition unfavorable to the inquiry , and excited the vigilance , if not the suspicions , of its friends towards the manner in which the powers conferred by it should be executed . We are now ...
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... least rational of such propensities . But then I must take leave to think that they form very indifferent qualifications for sitting at a board , the object of which is to pry into abuses , to expose errors and malversations , and to ...
... least rational of such propensities . But then I must take leave to think that they form very indifferent qualifications for sitting at a board , the object of which is to pry into abuses , to expose errors and malversations , and to ...
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... least one commis- sioner whom all men would allow to be well chosen . What were the grounds of his rejection , I am yet to learn . Whether he had incurred the guilt of drawing forth my warm commendations , solely by his own merits ; or ...
... least one commis- sioner whom all men would allow to be well chosen . What were the grounds of his rejection , I am yet to learn . Whether he had incurred the guilt of drawing forth my warm commendations , solely by his own merits ; or ...
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... least , until they had been long settled in the colony ; had families , and had become identified or amalgamated in the mass . The more the colony increased its numbers , and the longer it continued a colony , the farther would it be ...
... least , until they had been long settled in the colony ; had families , and had become identified or amalgamated in the mass . The more the colony increased its numbers , and the longer it continued a colony , the farther would it be ...
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... least as incapable of any thing great . These things we know to be the slander of malevolence and envy , repeated by ignorance and pre- judice ; may we not in charity suppose that all we have heard of the Southern Americans is not true ...
... least as incapable of any thing great . These things we know to be the slander of malevolence and envy , repeated by ignorance and pre- judice ; may we not in charity suppose that all we have heard of the Southern Americans is not true ...
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abuses admitted advantage agriculture America appears attention authorised version bank become Ben Johnson benevolence Boigne boys cause character charity Christ's Hospital church circulation circumstances Coke Coke's College colonies commerce common consequence considered cultivation Edinburgh effect Egmere England English established Europe evil ex-colonists existence expense farms favor feel founder France French funds Grammar schools Hayti Hebrew Holkham honor important improvement increase independence India industry instance institutions interest King labor land learning Lord Lord Sidmouth manufactures means ment moral nations nature necessary never object observed opinion Oxford parish pauperes persons political poor Poor Laws possess present principles produce prove racter received rendered respect scholars Scotland society South America Spain statutes sufficient things tion translators whole WILLIAM CAMDEN William of Wykeham Winchester Winchester College words workhouse writer
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Página 155 - It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense, either by sumptuary laws or by prohibiting the importation of foreign luxuries. They are themselves always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society.
Página 296 - LORD'S, and the ful1 ness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. 2 For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods. 3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD ? or who shall stand in his holy place ? 4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his эо soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
Página 521 - Taking the whole earth, instead of this island, emigration would of course be excluded; and, supposing the present population equal to a thousand millions, the human species would increase as the numbers, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256; and subsistence as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. In two centuries the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 to 9; in three centuries as 4096 to 13, and in two thousand years the difference would be almost incalculable.
Página 522 - The positive checks to population are extremely various, and include every cause, whether arising from vice or misery, which in any degree contributes to shorten the natural duration of human life. Under this head, therefore, may be enumerated all unwholesome occupations, severe labour and exposure to the seasons, extreme poverty, bad nursing of children, great towns, excesses of all kinds, the whole train of common diseases and epidemics, wars, plague, and famine.
Página 309 - And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence; neither was any deceit in his mouth.
Página 361 - An Act Against Such Persons as do Make Bankrupts, ' ' and is in part as follows : "Where divers and sundry persons craftily obtaining into their hands great substance of other men's goods, do suddenly flee to parts unknown, or keep their houses, not minding to pay or restore to any...
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Página 291 - Those who have compared most of the European translations with the original, have not scrupled to say, that the English translation of the Bible, made under the direction of king James the First, is the most accurate and faithful of the whole. Nor," adds Dr. C., " is this its only praise : the translators have seized the very spirit and soul of the original, and expressed this almost every where with pathos and energy.