MiscellaniesB. Tooke, 1717 - 312 Seiten |
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Seite 14 - You must first lay it down for a Foundation in general, That there is Inequality in the Sexes...
Seite 37 - Humour, and take the next Opportunity of pleasing them in some other thing, before they either ask or look for it: This will strengthen your Authority, by making it soft to them; and confirm their Obedience, by making it their Interest. You are to have as strict a Guard upon your self amongst your Children, as if you were amongst your Enemies.
Seite 7 - Ladies are so extream stirring at Church, that one would swear the Worm in their Conscience made them so unquiet. Others will have such a Divided Face between a Devout Goggle and an Inviting Glance, that the unnatural Mixture maketh even the best Looks to be at that time ridiculous.
Seite 153 - tis not peculiar to us, it rambles about the World, and is less kind to us than others; but for the Earth of England, tho perhaps inferior to that of many places abroad, to him there is Divinity in it, and he would rather dye, than see a spire of English Grass trampled down by a Foreign Trespasser...
Seite 82 - God himself thought it not enough to be a Creator, without being a Lawgiver, and his goodness had been defective towards mankind in making them, if he had not prescribed Rules to make them happy too. All Laws flow from that of Nature, and where that is not the Foundation, they may be legally impos'd, but they will be lamely obeyed...
Seite 254 - And therefore, without arraigning a profession that it would be scandalous for a man not to honour, one may by a suspicion (which is the more excusable, when it is in the behalf of the people) imagine, that the habit of taking money for their opinion may create in some such a forgetfulness to distinguish that they may take it for their vote.
Seite 19 - Vertue; and her bearing for a time, is more than rewarded by a Triumph that will continue as long as her Life. The next thing I will suppose, is, That your Husband may love Wine more than is convenient. It will be granted, That though there are Vices of a deeper dye, there are none that have greater Deformity than this, when it is not...
Seite 40 - If it was well examined, there is more money given to be laughed at than for any one thing in the world, though the purchasers do not think so.
Seite 273 - That the exalting his own Authority above his Laws, is like letting in his Enemy to surprize his Guards : The Laws are the only Guards he can be sure will never run away from him. 3. A Prince that will say he can do no Good, except he may do every thing; teacheth the People to say, They are Slaves, if they must not do whatever they have a mind to.
Seite 280 - He hath no affectation to set himself out, and dependeth wholly upon the natural force of what is his own, and the excellent application...