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... thought it right , because most con- venient , to maintain it , for the sake of avoiding the unhappy consequences of domestic disputes . On this principle I have more than once heard him pleasantly relate the agreement he made with the ...
... thought it right , because most con- venient , to maintain it , for the sake of avoiding the unhappy consequences of domestic disputes . On this principle I have more than once heard him pleasantly relate the agreement he made with the ...
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... thoughts , with distance from my dear boy , determine me to check my curiosity and be on the return . - Oh , why should Vanity and Folly , Pictures and Baubles , or even the stupendious ( sic ) mountains , beautiful hills , or rich ...
... thoughts , with distance from my dear boy , determine me to check my curiosity and be on the return . - Oh , why should Vanity and Folly , Pictures and Baubles , or even the stupendious ( sic ) mountains , beautiful hills , or rich ...
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... thought that to accept the proposed honour was his duty , and when he saw anything to be his duty , he undertook it at whatever risk . Well was it for his country that at this time he listened to the voice of duty rather than of ...
... thought that to accept the proposed honour was his duty , and when he saw anything to be his duty , he undertook it at whatever risk . Well was it for his country that at this time he listened to the voice of duty rather than of ...
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... thoughts . And indeed , I force myself to the public dinners and suppers for that purpose , though I show so little ... thought required to be filled up . Accordingly , he immediately commenced a second survey of the English prisons ...
... thoughts . And indeed , I force myself to the public dinners and suppers for that purpose , though I show so little ... thought required to be filled up . Accordingly , he immediately commenced a second survey of the English prisons ...
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... thought of the advantages they derived from his assistance will appear from the following passages in letters to Dr. Price : " I am ashamed to think how much I have accumulated your labours , yet I glory in that assistance , to which I ...
... thought of the advantages they derived from his assistance will appear from the following passages in letters to Dr. Price : " I am ashamed to think how much I have accumulated your labours , yet I glory in that assistance , to which I ...
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Page 42 - No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced ; no matter what complexion incompatible with freedom, an Indian or an African sun may have burnt upon him ; no matter in what disastrous battle his liberty may have been cloven down ; no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of slavery ; the first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust ; his soul walks abroad in her own majesty ; his body swells beyond...
Page 241 - That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictate of spare temperance : If every just man, that now pines with want, Had but a moderate and beseeming share Of that which lewdly-pampered luxury Now heaps upon some few with vast excess, Nature's full blessings would be well dispensed In unsuperfluous even proportion, And she no whit encumbered with her store...
Page 259 - Medleys are jumbled together with the Flying Post ; the Examiner is deadly sick ; the Spectator keeps up, and doubles its price ; I know not how long it will hold. Have you seen the red stamp the papers are marked with ? Methinks it is worth a halfpenny, the stamping it.
Page 49 - ... pure religion, may illuminate and invigorate the most distant extremities of that immense continent. Then may we hope that even Africa, though last of all the quarters of the globe, shall enjoy at length, in the evening of her days, those blessings which have descended so plentifully upon us in a much earlier period of the world. Then also will Europe, participating in her improvement and prosperity, receive an ample recompense for the tardy kindness (if kindness it can be called) of no longer...
Page 9 - Rousseau, Sir, is a very bad man. I would sooner sign a sentence for his transportation, than that of any felon who has gone from the Old Bailey these many years. Yes, I should like to have him work in the plantations." BOSWELL. "Sir, do you think him as bad a man as Voltaire?" JOHNSON. "Why, Sir, it is difficult to settle the proportion of iniquity between them.
Page 379 - I said to my friends that there was no limit to the speed of such an engine, provided the works could be made to stand.
Page 257 - ... it may be that I shall leave a name sometimes remembered with expressions of good-will in the abodes of those whose lot it is to labor and to earn their daily bread by the sweat of their brow, when they shall recruit their exhausted strength with abundant and untaxed food, the sweeter because it is no longer leavened with a sense of injustice.
Page 324 - Taxation by negativing the whole, yet the exercise of that power by them has not been frequent and is justly regarded by this house with peculiar jealousy, as affecting the right of the Commons to grant the supplies, and to provide the ways and means for the service of the year.
Page 111 - ... rends its kindred throne! You have said, my lords, you have willed — the Church and the King have willed — that the Queen should be deprived of its solemn service! She has, instead of that solemnity, the heartfelt prayers of the people. She wants no prayers of mine. But I do here pour forth my humble...