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... should facrifice the most , and who should be the first to offer ; while the commons feemed loft in aftonishment and applaufe . It was in an inftant decreed , that all impofts fhould be equally and equitably laid on ; that all the ...
... should facrifice the most , and who should be the first to offer ; while the commons feemed loft in aftonishment and applaufe . It was in an inftant decreed , that all impofts fhould be equally and equitably laid on ; that all the ...
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... should be difplayed in the center of Europe , in its oldeft monarchy , and in a country long and defervedly emi- nent for information and know- ledge , can fcarcely be confidered as lefs than wonderful . They how- ever afford full ...
... should be difplayed in the center of Europe , in its oldeft monarchy , and in a country long and defervedly emi- nent for information and know- ledge , can fcarcely be confidered as lefs than wonderful . They how- ever afford full ...
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... should have fucceeded in prompting them to the greatest acts of outrage and violence . But the great promoter , caufe , and , it might perhaps be faid , au- thor of the revolution ; the man who , deftitute of fpirit in himself ...
... should have fucceeded in prompting them to the greatest acts of outrage and violence . But the great promoter , caufe , and , it might perhaps be faid , au- thor of the revolution ; the man who , deftitute of fpirit in himself ...
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... should no longer remain parcelled out a- mongst Bretons , Dauphinois , and Provençaux , but should for the fu- ture be inhabited by French citi- zens only . It was stated , in support of this propofal , that the French had not hitherto ...
... should no longer remain parcelled out a- mongst Bretons , Dauphinois , and Provençaux , but should for the fu- ture be inhabited by French citi- zens only . It was stated , in support of this propofal , that the French had not hitherto ...
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... should give its fanction to a loan of thirty millions of livres , as a measure in- difpenfably neceffary . The neceffity was too evident to admit of a dif- cuffion ; but fome objections were made on account of the inftructions which the ...
... should give its fanction to a loan of thirty millions of livres , as a measure in- difpenfably neceffary . The neceffity was too evident to admit of a dif- cuffion ; but fome objections were made on account of the inftructions which the ...
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Seite 201 - The Body of Benjamin Franklin Printer (Like the cover of an old book Its contents torn out And stript of its lettering and gilding) Lies here, food for worms. But the work shall not be lost For it will (as he believed) appear once more In a new and more elegant edition Revised and corrected by The Author.* * The foregoing epitaph was written by Dr.
Seite 164 - Abyssinia is clear and the sun shines; about nine, a small cloud, not above four feet broad, appears in the East, whirling violently round as if upon an axis; but arrived near the zenith, it...
Seite 10 - To see him setting out on a journey, was a matter truly curious: his first care was to put two or three eggs, boiled hard, into his great-coat pocket, or any scraps of bread which he found; baggage he never took; then, mounting one of his hunters, his next attention was to get out of London, into that road where turnpikes were the fewest.
Seite 277 - Majefty's moft dutiful and loyal fubje&s the Commons of Great Britain, in Parliament aflembled, beg leave to return Your Majefty our humble thanks, for your moft gracious fpeech from the Throne.
Seite 165 - ... did actually more than once reach us. Again they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds. There the tops often separated from the bodies ; and these, once disjoined, dispersed in the air, and did not appear more.
Seite 14 - Forest ; and an old man and woman, his tenants, •were the only persons with whom he could hold any converse. Here he fell ill ; and as he would have no...
Seite 85 - Queen could not be persuaded that it was his writing whose name was to it, but that it had some more mischievous author, and said with great indignation, that she would have him racked to produce his author, I replied : ' Nay, Madam, he is a doctor ; never rack his person, but rack his...
Seite 160 - ... from his bones, they do not meddle with the thighs, or the parts where the great arteries are. At...
Seite 31 - I was placed in, by living in a native family, I had an opportunity of feeing more of the nature and difpofition of the middling- fort of people, and their manners and cuftoms, than perhaps has fallen to the lot of moft travellers, I am induced to give the few obfervations I made during that period. The Perfians, with refpeft to outward behaviour, are certainly the Parifians of the Eaffl.
Seite 42 - ... as the mother, keeping up her prerogative, never parts with the power over any portion of...