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... Correspondence of Joseph Priestley , II , 58 . 84 Theological and Miscellaneous Works , XIX , 220-1 , 221 n . In addition to Priestley , the following recommended Cooper : Mr. Kirwan , later to be president of the Royal Society of ...
... Correspondence of Joseph Priestley , II , 58 . 84 Theological and Miscellaneous Works , XIX , 220-1 , 221 n . In addition to Priestley , the following recommended Cooper : Mr. Kirwan , later to be president of the Royal Society of ...
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... correspondence was Horne Tooke . A year before the organization of the Manchester Constitutional Society , he had been present at a meeting of the Revolution So- ciety in London and had supported Tooke in a motion to deny membership to ...
... correspondence was Horne Tooke . A year before the organization of the Manchester Constitutional Society , he had been present at a meeting of the Revolution So- ciety in London and had supported Tooke in a motion to deny membership to ...
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... correspondence with the Jacobins had already been begun by the Revolution Society in London , the delegation of Cooper and Watt gained for their own society notoriety and called forth most bitter comments from English conservatives ...
... correspondence with the Jacobins had already been begun by the Revolution Society in London , the delegation of Cooper and Watt gained for their own society notoriety and called forth most bitter comments from English conservatives ...
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... correspondence with the French might be as easily explained as Burke's correspondence with Americans during the Revolution.24 Such an attitude , however , was exceptional . Erskine took pains to declare that Cooper and Watt had nothing ...
... correspondence with the French might be as easily explained as Burke's correspondence with Americans during the Revolution.24 Such an attitude , however , was exceptional . Erskine took pains to declare that Cooper and Watt had nothing ...
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... correspondence with the French , an action which the seceding group regarded as indistinguishable from that of Cooper.28 Baker , one of the five , explained his action in a speech at the county meeting of Hertfordshire some- what later ...
... correspondence with the French , an action which the seceding group regarded as indistinguishable from that of Cooper.28 Baker , one of the five , explained his action in a speech at the county meeting of Hertfordshire some- what later ...
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Page 52 - Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine, that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field...
Page 21 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Page 405 - A Treatise on the Law of Libel and the Liberty of the Press; Showing the Origin, Use, and Abuse of the Law of Libel: With Copious Notes and References to Authorities in Great Britain and the United States: As Applicable to Individuals and to Political and Ecclesiastical Bodies and Principles.
Page 287 - inferior variety of the human species; and not capable of the same improvement as the whites." Dr. SC Cartwright of the University of Louisiana insisted that the capacities of the Negro adult for learning were equal to those of a white infant; and the Negro could properly perform certain physiological functions only when under the control of white men. Because of the Negro's inferiority...
Page 307 - Is it worth our while to continue this union of states, where the north demand to be our masters, and we are required to be their tributaries...
Page 410 - An Account of the Trial of Thomas Cooper of Northumberland on a Charge of Libel Against the President of the United States; Taken in Short Hand, with a Preface, Notes, and Appendix, by Thomas Cooper (Philadelphia, John Bioren, printer, 1800).
Page 352 - I am not yet conquered, and expect yet to bivouac on the field of Battle. I have no objection to a moral governor of the universe, but how came he in that character to create the Priesthood ? Moral ! You might as well apply squareness to virtue. I wish I knew how to account for moral and physical evil, and then I should be able to account for malaria, dyspepsia, yellow fever, the plague, cholera, rattlesnakes, mosquitoes and faquirs of all classes and orders, asiatic and european, papist and protestant.
Page 124 - But in the present state of affairs, the press is open to those who will praise, while the threats of the law hang over those who blame the conduct of the men in power.
Page 402 - AN APPEAL to the Government and Congress of the United States, against the Depredations committed by American Privateers, on the Commerce of Nations at peace with us. By an American Citizen.
Page 198 - ... Judge Cooper, of Pennsylvania, a political refugee with Dr. Priestley from the fires and mobs of Birmingham. He is one of the ablest men in America, and that in several branches of science. The law opinion which he mentions I have received, and a more luminous one has not been seen. The best pieces on political economy which have been written in this country were by Cooper.