English Prose of the Eighteenth CenturyCecil Albert Moore |
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... king , deposed another king , and made a mock king of a third , ' and yet you could have the face to expect to be employed and trusted by the fourth . Anybody that did not know the temper of your party would stand amazed at the ...
... king , deposed another king , and made a mock king of a third , ' and yet you could have the face to expect to be employed and trusted by the fourth . Anybody that did not know the temper of your party would stand amazed at the ...
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... king presupposes two things . First . That the king is not to be trusted without being looked after ; or , in other words , that a thirst for absolute power is the natural disease of mon- archy . Secondly . That the commons , by being ...
... king presupposes two things . First . That the king is not to be trusted without being looked after ; or , in other words , that a thirst for absolute power is the natural disease of mon- archy . Secondly . That the commons , by being ...
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... king , but the general manner of the kings of the earth whom Israel was so eagerly copying after . And notwith- standing the great distance of time and difference of manners , the character is still in fashion . And Samuel told all the ...
... king , but the general manner of the kings of the earth whom Israel was so eagerly copying after . And notwith- standing the great distance of time and difference of manners , the character is still in fashion . And Samuel told all the ...
Contents
PREFACE | 4 |
THE POOR MANS PLEA | 14 |
THE SHORTEST WAY WITH THE DISSENTERS | 23 |
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able Addison admiration Æneid affection appear atheism Bargrave beauty better body called cerned character Church Church of England Cicero common consider creature death desire discourse endeavour enemy England English entertainment eral fear fortune freethinkers genius gentleman give hand hath honour horse House of Hanover Houyhnhnms Hudibras human humour Iliad Isaac Bickerstaff Juvenal kind King lady learning least live look Lord mankind manner master means ment mind moral nation nature ness never noble observed occasion opinion passion persons pleased pleasure poet poor pretend prince reader reason religion Richard Steele ridicule sense servants Sir Roger Steele taste Tatler tell temper Theocles things Thomas D'Urfey thought tion told Tom Jones town ture turn Veal vice Virgil virtue Whig whole word writing Yahoos young