Miscellaneous essays. Political tracts. A journey to the Western islands of ScotlandLuke Hansard & Sons, 1810 |
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... equal crimes with- out equal proofs of sorrow , or equal acts of atone- ment * . The interpolations are distinguished by Italick characters . PASSAGES PASSAGES interpolated in MASENIUS . The word pandemonium in the 10 A LETTER TO THE.
... equal crimes with- out equal proofs of sorrow , or equal acts of atone- ment * . The interpolations are distinguished by Italick characters . PASSAGES PASSAGES interpolated in MASENIUS . The word pandemonium in the 10 A LETTER TO THE.
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... equal , at least , in illiberality . This Review is justly reckoned one of the finest specimens of criticism in our language , and was read with such eagerness when published in the Literary Magazine , that the author was induced to ...
... equal , at least , in illiberality . This Review is justly reckoned one of the finest specimens of criticism in our language , and was read with such eagerness when published in the Literary Magazine , that the author was induced to ...
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... equal . The heat and vigour " of the succeeding summer of youth ripens for us 66 new pleasures , the blooming maid , the nightly " revel , and the jovial chace : the serene autumn of " complete manhood feasts us with the golden harvests ...
... equal . The heat and vigour " of the succeeding summer of youth ripens for us 66 new pleasures , the blooming maid , the nightly " revel , and the jovial chace : the serene autumn of " complete manhood feasts us with the golden harvests ...
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... equal or similar . They now and then catch a mor- tal proud of his parts , and flattered either by the submission of those who court his kindness , or the notice of those who suffer him to court theirs . head thus prepared for the ...
... equal or similar . They now and then catch a mor- tal proud of his parts , and flattered either by the submission of those who court his kindness , or the notice of those who suffer him to court theirs . head thus prepared for the ...
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... equal to the first . The author has indeed en- gaged in a disquisition in which we need not wonder if he fails , in the solution of questions on which philosophers have employed their abilities from the earliest times , And found no end ...
... equal to the first . The author has indeed en- gaged in a disquisition in which we need not wonder if he fails , in the solution of questions on which philosophers have employed their abilities from the earliest times , And found no end ...
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204 ページ - His violent prejudice against our West Indian and American settlers appeared whenever there was an opportunity. Towards the conclusion of his " Taxation no Tyranny," he says, " how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
71 ページ - that having been in this session of parliament expelled this house, he was and is incapable of being elected a member to serve in this present parliament.
177 ページ - British parliament, as are, bona fide, restrained to the regulation of our external commerce, for the purpose of securing the commercial advantages of the whole empire to the mother country, and the commercial benefits of its respective members ; excluding every idea of taxation, internal or external, for raising a revenue on the subjects in America, without their consent.
177 ページ - ... as the English colonists are not represented, and from their local and other circumstances cannot properly be represented in the British parliament, they are entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation in their several provincial legislatures...
174 ページ - That they are entitled to life, liberty, and property, and they have never ceded to any sovereign power whatever, a right to dispose of either without their consent.
390 ページ - ... has not made the experiment, or who is not accustomed to require rigorous accuracy from himself, will scarcely believe how much a few hours take from certainty of knowledge, and distinctness of imagery ; how the succession of objects will be broken, how separate parts will be confused, and how many particular features and discriminations will be compressed and conglobated into one gross and general idea.
273 ページ - We came thither too late to see what we expected, a people of peculiar appearance, and a system of antiquated life. The clans retain little now of their original character, their ferocity of temper is softened, their military ardour is extinguished, their dignity of independence is depressed, their contempt of government subdued, and the reverence for their chiefs abated.
176 ページ - That, by such emigration, they by no means forfeited, surrendered, or lost, any of those rights, but that they were, and their descendants now are, entitled to the exercise and enjoyment of all such of them, as their local and other circumstances enable them to exercise and enjoy.
251 ページ - We were in this place at ease and by choice, and had no evils to suffer or to fear; yet the imaginations excited by the view of an unknown and untravelled wilderness are not such as arise in the artificial solitude of parks and gardens...
352 ページ - ... always feel their own ignorance. They are not much accustomed to be interrogated by others : and seem never to have thought upon interrogating themselves ; so that if they do not know what they tell to be true, they likewise do not distinctly perceive it to be false. Mr. Boswell was very diligent in his inquiries ; and the result of his investigations was, that the answer to the second question was commonly such as nullified the answer to the first.