The Free-holder. Or Political EssaysJ. and R. Tonson and S. Draper in the Strand., 1751 - 316 من الصفحات |
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... farther back than the Time of our prefent King , where can we find , among the Sovereign Houses of Europe , any other Family , that has furnished so many Perfons of diftinguished Forti- tude ? Three of His Majefty's Brothers have fallen ...
... farther back than the Time of our prefent King , where can we find , among the Sovereign Houses of Europe , any other Family , that has furnished so many Perfons of diftinguished Forti- tude ? Three of His Majefty's Brothers have fallen ...
الصفحة 24
... Farther , tho ' there is a Benevolence due to all Mankind , none can queftion but a fuperior De gree of it is to be paid to a Father , à Wife , or a Child . T a Child . In the fame Manner , though our 24 The FREE HOLDER . No5.
... Farther , tho ' there is a Benevolence due to all Mankind , none can queftion but a fuperior De gree of it is to be paid to a Father , à Wife , or a Child . T a Child . In the fame Manner , though our 24 The FREE HOLDER . No5.
الصفحة 33
... farther fee the juft Senfe the Heathens . had of the Crime of Perjury , from the Penalties which they inflicted on the Perfons guilty of it . Perjury among the Scythians was a Capital Crime ; and among the Egyptians alfo was punifhed ...
... farther fee the juft Senfe the Heathens . had of the Crime of Perjury , from the Penalties which they inflicted on the Perfons guilty of it . Perjury among the Scythians was a Capital Crime ; and among the Egyptians alfo was punifhed ...
الصفحة 47
... farther pro- mife , to annoy the Enemy with all the Flames , Darts and Arrows with which Nature has • armed us ; never to correspond with them by Sigh , Ogle , or Billet - doux ; not to have any • Intercourse with them either in Snuff ...
... farther pro- mife , to annoy the Enemy with all the Flames , Darts and Arrows with which Nature has • armed us ; never to correspond with them by Sigh , Ogle , or Billet - doux ; not to have any • Intercourse with them either in Snuff ...
الصفحة 55
... farther Trouble for our fakes . You afterward begin a kind of Te Deum , be- fore the Time , in that remarkable Sentence , We adore the Wisdom of the Divine Providence , which has opened a way to our Reftoration , by the Success of thofe ...
... farther Trouble for our fakes . You afterward begin a kind of Te Deum , be- fore the Time , in that remarkable Sentence , We adore the Wisdom of the Divine Providence , which has opened a way to our Reftoration , by the Success of thofe ...
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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.