The Pamphleteer, Band 5Abraham John Valpy A. J. Valpy., 1815 |
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... less injurious to the royal dignity . To pardon is not to for- get , for oblivion conciliates all hearts , but pardon inflames them . If the persons of kings are justly sacred , their word is no less so , and should be unsullied by ...
... less injurious to the royal dignity . To pardon is not to for- get , for oblivion conciliates all hearts , but pardon inflames them . If the persons of kings are justly sacred , their word is no less so , and should be unsullied by ...
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... less active , in that revolution : all have made sacrifices more or less se- vere : all have sent their children to the defence of their country , and that defence was glorious : all were therefore interested 15.
... less active , in that revolution : all have made sacrifices more or less se- vere : all have sent their children to the defence of their country , and that defence was glorious : all were therefore interested 15.
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... less to be adapted to the highest national prosperity ; and therefore privileges and dis- tinctions should only form a part of the organization , so far as they tend to the completion of this primal object : they are wheels cal- culated ...
... less to be adapted to the highest national prosperity ; and therefore privileges and dis- tinctions should only form a part of the organization , so far as they tend to the completion of this primal object : they are wheels cal- culated ...
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... less connection with the public , little or nothing of nation- al spirit . And yet it should exist ; for great nations are only form- ed by great passions . One nation indulges the passion for liberty ; another follows that of conquest ...
... less connection with the public , little or nothing of nation- al spirit . And yet it should exist ; for great nations are only form- ed by great passions . One nation indulges the passion for liberty ; another follows that of conquest ...
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... less under con- trol than himself . Who then are the criminals ? Those who caused the revolution - our accusers themselves . In the outset , those only who gave their voice for his death , are attacked , with a view not to provoke too ...
... less under con- trol than himself . Who then are the criminals ? Those who caused the revolution - our accusers themselves . In the outset , those only who gave their voice for his death , are attacked , with a view not to provoke too ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 96 - And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation ; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you ; as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
Seite 545 - In a prison, the awe of the public eye is lost, and the power of the law is spent ; there are few fears, there are no blushes. The lewd inflame the lewd, the audacious harden the audacious. Every one fortifies himself as he can against his own sensibility, endeavours to practise on others the arts which are practised on himself ; and gains the kindness of his associates by similitude of manners.
Seite 396 - The rites of hospitality being thus performed towards a stranger in distress; my worthy benefactress (pointing to the mat, and telling me I might sleep there without apprehension) called to the female part of her family...
Seite 523 - They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with death; for they allege, that care and vigilance, with a very common understanding, may preserve a man's goods from thieves, but honesty hath no fence against superior cunning...
Seite 536 - There are two capital faults in our law with relation to civil debts. One is, that every man is presumed solvent. A presumption, in innumerable cases, directly against truth. Therefore the debtor is ordered, on a supposition of ability and fraud, to be coerced his liberty until he makes payment.
Seite 541 - ... the public stock. The confinement, therefore, of any man in the sloth and darkness of a prison, is a loss to the nation, and no gain to the creditor. For of the multitudes who are pining in those cells of misery, a very small part is suspected of any fraudulent act by which they retain what belongs to others.
Seite 397 - The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk — no wife to grind his corn.
Seite 352 - An account of the proceedings of the British and other Protestant inhabitants of the province of Quebeck, in North America, in order to obtain an House of Assembly in that province.
Seite 538 - His plan is original ; and it is as full of genius as it is of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery ; a circumnavigation of charity. Already the benefit of his labour is felt more or less in every country; I hope he will anticipate his final reward, by seeing all its effects fully realized in his own. He will receive, not by...