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... manner , and the foundation of every virtue , and of all government , sapped with great art and much ingenuity . What advantage do we derive from such writings ? What delight can a man find in employing a capacity which might be ...
... manner , and the foundation of every virtue , and of all government , sapped with great art and much ingenuity . What advantage do we derive from such writings ? What delight can a man find in employing a capacity which might be ...
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... manner by the other destructive consequences of war from the beginning of the world to this day , in the four parts of it , at a thousand times as much ; no exaggerated calculation , allowing for time and extent . We have not perhaps ...
... manner by the other destructive consequences of war from the beginning of the world to this day , in the four parts of it , at a thousand times as much ; no exaggerated calculation , allowing for time and extent . We have not perhaps ...
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... manner , merely by the occasional will of the magistrate . This form , as it is the most simple , so it is in- finitely the most general . Scarce any part of the world is exempted from its power . And in those few places where men enjoy ...
... manner , merely by the occasional will of the magistrate . This form , as it is the most simple , so it is in- finitely the most general . Scarce any part of the world is exempted from its power . And in those few places where men enjoy ...
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... manner . But the truth is , this unnatural power corrupts both the heart and the under- standing . And to prevent the least hope of amendment , a king is ever surrounded by a crowd of infamous flatterers , who find their account in ...
... manner . But the truth is , this unnatural power corrupts both the heart and the under- standing . And to prevent the least hope of amendment , a king is ever surrounded by a crowd of infamous flatterers , who find their account in ...
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... manner as he governs the wretches subjected to him . Here the tyranny is doubled . There are two courts , and two interests ; both very different from the interests of the people . The favorite knows that the regard of a tyrant is as ...
... manner as he governs the wretches subjected to him . Here the tyranny is doubled . There are two courts , and two interests ; both very different from the interests of the people . The favorite knows that the regard of a tyrant is as ...
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Page 102 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 151 - Observe that part of a beautiful woman where she is perhaps the most beautiful, about the neck and breasts ; the smoothness ; the softness ; the easy and insensible swell ; the variety of the surface, which is never for the smallest space the same ; the deceitful maze, through which the unsteady eye slides giddily, without knowing where to fix or whither it is carried.
Page 159 - Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out 140 With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Page 100 - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd, that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either ; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 389 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Page 82 - But as pain is stronger in its operation than pleasure, so death is in general a much more affecting idea than pain; because there are very few pains, however exquisite, which are not preferred to death: nay, what generally makes pain itself, if I may say so, more painful, is, that it is considered as an emissary of this king of terrors. When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable of giving any delight, and are simply terrible; but at certain distances, and with certain modifications,...
Page 100 - No person seems better to have understood the secret of heightening, or of setting terrible things, if I may use the expression, in their strongest light by the force of a judicious obscurity, than Milton. His description of Death in the second book...
Page 106 - Who hath sent out the wild ass free ? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass ? Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
Page 425 - He^was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences ; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Page 110 - Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob; 8.