Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, Volumes 66-67Pub. for J. Hinton, 1780 |
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... Subjects . number of days in the autumn . Not- withstanding this. ability of refiftance , as evidences that they cannot be actuated by factious or dange rous motives ; and proceed to fhew , that the most dreadful calamities to their ...
... Subjects . number of days in the autumn . Not- withstanding this. ability of refiftance , as evidences that they cannot be actuated by factious or dange rous motives ; and proceed to fhew , that the most dreadful calamities to their ...
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... subjects , who were in arms for me ; and , whatsoever shall enfue , I shall leave them no room for complaint , that I have not done the utmost they could fexpect from me . Let those , who forget their duty , and are negligent of their ...
... subjects , who were in arms for me ; and , whatsoever shall enfue , I shall leave them no room for complaint , that I have not done the utmost they could fexpect from me . Let those , who forget their duty , and are negligent of their ...
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... subjects of this happy re- public . Before I knew them , I had formed an opinion , that the people of this place were fanatical , gloomy - minded , and unfociable , as the Puritans in England , and the Prefby- terians in Scotland were ...
... subjects of this happy re- public . Before I knew them , I had formed an opinion , that the people of this place were fanatical , gloomy - minded , and unfociable , as the Puritans in England , and the Prefby- terians in Scotland were ...
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... subject was already to much exhaufted , that they could not be very in- teretting ; excepting that the Minifter , in the courie of them , avowed his intention , if it thould become neceflary , of arming the Canadians against the other ...
... subject was already to much exhaufted , that they could not be very in- teretting ; excepting that the Minifter , in the courie of them , avowed his intention , if it thould become neceflary , of arming the Canadians against the other ...
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... subjects who are moft active and induftrious to improve their eftates ; and that because they hope to raise them with the greatest facility : at the fame time they are more favourable to thofe whom their natural floth has rendered more ...
... subjects who are moft active and induftrious to improve their eftates ; and that because they hope to raise them with the greatest facility : at the fame time they are more favourable to thofe whom their natural floth has rendered more ...
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Page 242 - Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait the great teacher, Death; and God adore. What future bliss, He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never Is, but always To be blest. The soul, uneasy, and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Page 314 - I do declare that I do not believe that the Pope of Rome or any other foreign prince, prelate, person, state, or potentate, hath or ought to have any temporal or civil jurisdiction, power, superiority, or pre-eminence, directly or indirectly, within this realm.
Page 314 - ... the Pope or any other authority or person whatsoever, or without any hope of any such dispensation from any person or authority whatsoever or without thinking that I am or can be acquitted before God or man or absolved of this declaration or any part thereof although the Pope or any other person or persons or power whatsoever should dispense with or annul the same, or declare that it was null and void from the beginning.
Page 90 - That it is a high infringement of the liberties and privileges of the Commons of the United Kingdom...
Page 149 - I, clapping my hands cheerily together, that was I in a desert, I would find out wherewith in it to call forth my affections If I could not do better, I would fasten them upon some sweet myrtle, or seek some melancholy cypress to connect myself to...
Page 117 - In order, therefore, to be quiet and uninterrupted, whilst he was in search of the necessary expedients, he generally retired to his bed ; and he has been known to lie there one, two, or three days, till he had attained the object in view. He then would get up, and execute his design without any drawing or model. Indeed, it never was his custom to make either, unless he was obliged to do it to satisfy his employers.
Page 314 - ... under pretence of their being heretics ; and also that unchristian and impious principle, that no faith is to be kept with heretics...
Page 314 - I do renounce, reject, and abjure, the opinion that Princes excommunicated by the Pope and Council, or by any authority of the See of Rome, or by any authority whatsoever, may be deposed or murdered by their Subjects, or by any person whatsoever...
Page 5 - I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea, presently, sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways, which I will not name for the honour I bear them, so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
Page 75 - I have lived to see this world is made up of perturbations, and I have been long preparing to leave it, and gathering comfort for the dreadful hour of making my account with God, which I now apprehend to be near...