The Free-holder. Or Political EssaysJ. and R. Tonson and S. Draper in the Strand., 1751 - 316 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 19
... Form of Government , which excludes by its very Conftitution every Female from Power , as naturally unfit to hold the Sceptre of that Kingdom . Women ought in Reafon to be no less averfe to Popery than to Arbitrary Power . Some merry ...
... Form of Government , which excludes by its very Conftitution every Female from Power , as naturally unfit to hold the Sceptre of that Kingdom . Women ought in Reafon to be no less averfe to Popery than to Arbitrary Power . Some merry ...
الصفحة 28
... Form of Government , than any other Nation under Heaven . But being perfuaded that every One must look upon himfelf as indifpen- fably obliged to the Practice of a Duty , which is recommended to him by fo many Arguments and Examples , I ...
... Form of Government , than any other Nation under Heaven . But being perfuaded that every One must look upon himfelf as indifpen- fably obliged to the Practice of a Duty , which is recommended to him by fo many Arguments and Examples , I ...
الصفحة 31
... Form of these publick Proteftations ; or who have any mental Reserves , or who take an Oath against their Confciences , upon any Motive what- foever ; or with a Defign to break it , or repent of it are guilty of Perjury . Any of these ...
... Form of these publick Proteftations ; or who have any mental Reserves , or who take an Oath against their Confciences , upon any Motive what- foever ; or with a Defign to break it , or repent of it are guilty of Perjury . Any of these ...
الصفحة 47
... Form , fhall prefume to lay before them the fol- lowing rough Draught , to be corrected or im- proved , as they in their Wisdom fhall think fit . C E the Conforts , Relicts , and Spinfters of WE the Ifle of Great Britain , whofe Names ...
... Form , fhall prefume to lay before them the fol- lowing rough Draught , to be corrected or im- proved , as they in their Wisdom fhall think fit . C E the Conforts , Relicts , and Spinfters of WE the Ifle of Great Britain , whofe Names ...
الصفحة 58
... Forms of Juftice , they are not fuf- ficient to fecure any Rights to the People ; be- cause they may be dispensed with , or laid aside , at the Pleasure of the Sovereign . And here it very much imports us to confider , that Arbitrary ...
... Forms of Juftice , they are not fuf- ficient to fecure any Rights to the People ; be- cause they may be dispensed with , or laid aside , at the Pleasure of the Sovereign . And here it very much imports us to confider , that Arbitrary ...
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الصفحة 201 - The discretion of a man deferreth his anger ; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. 12 The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion ; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.
الصفحة 284 - Not unto us, not unto us, but unto thy name be the praise...
الصفحة 237 - ... of their poets in each nation. The illiterate among our countrymen may learn to judge, from Dryden's Virgil, of the most perfect epic performance : and those parts of Homer, which have already been published by Mr.
الصفحة 126 - The landlord had swelled his body to a prodigious size, and worked up his complexion to a standing crimson by his zeal for the prosperity of the church, which he expressed every hour of the day, as his customers dropt in, by repeated bumpers.
الصفحة 22 - THERE is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.
الصفحة 123 - The wrong notions and prejudices which cleave to many of these country gentlemen, who have always lived out of the way of being better informed, are not easy to be conceived by a person who has never conversed with them.
الصفحة 281 - ... it came even to pass as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord ; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the Lord, saying, For he is good ; for his mercy endureth for ever; that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the Lord...
الصفحة 237 - I am in a particular manner pleased with the labours of those who have improved our language with the translation of old Latin and Greek authors; and by that means let us into the knowledge of what passed in the famous governments of Greece and Rome.
الصفحة 54 - Usurper to let in an Inundation of Foreigners from Abroad and to reduce these Nations to the State of a Province, to one of the most inconsiderable Provinces of the Empire.
الصفحة 162 - It is the duty of an honest and prudent man to sacrifice a doubtful opinion to the concurring judgment of those whom he believes to be well intentioned to their country, and who have better opportunities of looking into all its most complicated interests.