The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Reviews, political tracts, and Lives of eminent personsW. Pickering, 1825 |
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... expected from general histories , because we see them in their pri- vate apartments , in their careless hours , and observe those . actions in which they indulged their own inclinations , without any regard to censure or applause . Thus ...
... expected from general histories , because we see them in their pri- vate apartments , in their careless hours , and observe those . actions in which they indulged their own inclinations , without any regard to censure or applause . Thus ...
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... expected to continue half the campaign , was , with rapid toil , com- pleted in a few days . Brutus's soldiers fell to the gate with resistless fury ; it gave way , at last , with hideous crash . -This great and good man , doing his ...
... expected to continue half the campaign , was , with rapid toil , com- pleted in a few days . Brutus's soldiers fell to the gate with resistless fury ; it gave way , at last , with hideous crash . -This great and good man , doing his ...
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... expected from any single hand , but from the joint inquiries , and united labours , of a numerous society of able men , instituted by authority , selected with great discernment and impartiality , and supported at the charge of the ...
... expected from any single hand , but from the joint inquiries , and united labours , of a numerous society of able men , instituted by authority , selected with great discernment and impartiality , and supported at the charge of the ...
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... expected ; and honestly to lay before the people , what inquiry can gather of the past , and con- jecture can estimate of the future . The general subject of the present war is sufficiently known . It is allowed , on both sides , that ...
... expected ; and honestly to lay before the people , what inquiry can gather of the past , and con- jecture can estimate of the future . The general subject of the present war is sufficiently known . It is allowed , on both sides , that ...
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... expected advantages upon the faith of their new inmates , which there was no purpose to con- fer upon them . It cannot be said , that the Indians origi- nally invited us to their coasts ; we went , uncalled and unexpected , to nations ...
... expected advantages upon the faith of their new inmates , which there was no purpose to con- fer upon them . It cannot be said , that the Indians origi- nally invited us to their coasts ; we went , uncalled and unexpected , to nations ...
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Seite 239 - That they are entitled to life, liberty, and property, and they have never ceded to any sovereign power whatever, a right to dispose of either without their consent.
Seite 240 - That by such emigration they by no means forfeited, surrendered, or lost any of those rights, but that they were, and their descendants now are, entitled to the exercise and enjoyment of all such of them, as their local and other circumstances enable them to exercise and enjoy.
Seite 241 - But, from the necessity of the case, and a regard to the mutual interest of both countries, we cheerfully consent to the operation of such acts of the British parliament, as are bona fide, restrained to the regulation of our external commerce, for the purpose of securing the commercial advantages of the whole empire to the mother country, and the commercial benefits of its respective members ; excluding every idea of taxation internal or external, for raising a revenue on the subjects in America,...
Seite 262 - ... peaceably diligent, and securely rich. But there is one writer, and perhaps many who do not write, to whom the contraction of these pernicious privileges appears very dangerous, and who startle at the thoughts of England free and America in chains. Children fly from their own shadow, and rhetoricians are frighted by their own voices. Chains is undoubtedly a dreadful word; but perhaps the masters of civil wisdom may discover some gradations between chains and anarchy. Chains need not be put upon...
Seite 206 - Junius is an unusual phenomenon, on which some have gazed with wonder, and some with terrour, but wonder and terrour are transitory passions. -Be will soon be more closely viewed^'; or more attentively examined ; and what folly has taken for a comet, that from its flaming hair shook pestilence and war...
Seite 56 - To entail irreversible poverty upon generation after generation, only because the ancestor happened to be poor, is, in itself, cruel, if not unjust, and is wholly contrary to the maxims of a commercial nation, which always suppose and promote a rotation of property, and offer every individual a chance of mending his condition by his diligence.
Seite 249 - ... guaranteed by the plighted faith of government, and the most solemn compacts with British Sovereigns, should refuse to surrender them to men, who found their claims on no principles of reason, and who prosecute them with a design, that by having our lives and property in their power they may, with the greater facility, enslave you.
Seite 485 - God hath necessitated their contentment : but the superior ingredient and obscured part of ourselves, whereto all present felicities afford no resting contentment, will be able at last to tell us, we are more than our present selves, and evacuate such hopes in the fruition of their own accomplishments.
Seite 481 - a lady," says Whitefoot, " of such symmetrical proportion to her worthy husband, both in the graces of her body and mind, that they seemed to come together by a kind of natural magnetism.
Seite 479 - There are many things delivered rhetorically, many expressions therein merely tropical, and as they best illustrate my intention ; and therefore also there are many things to be taken in a soft and flexible sense, and not to be called unto the rigid test of reason.