Dramatic and Prose Miscellanies: Lucianus redivivus: or, Dialogues concerning men and manners. A trip to Holland: containing sketches of character, with cursory observations on the manners and customs of the Dutch in 1770. Public prosperity: Letter addressed to the Right Hon. William Pitt, in 1792, for raising six millions sterling, and for employing that sum in loans to necessitous and industrious persons ... 3d ed. Saturnian times; or, A plan for abolishing the national religion in favour of the hero-worship of antiquity, addressed to the enlightened heathens of the British empire (2d ed., 1770)G. Virtue, 1838 - Great Britain |
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... admired , and even studied , by you . Les ruses état , if I may be allowed the expression , must , in like man- ner , be cultivated by the monarch who would wish to preserve to himself the advantages gained by his arms ; but on this ...
... admired , and even studied , by you . Les ruses état , if I may be allowed the expression , must , in like man- ner , be cultivated by the monarch who would wish to preserve to himself the advantages gained by his arms ; but on this ...
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... admired ; dead , he is lamented by the people he has subdued ! " Fred . I am glad to find it the opinion , as well of your- self as of others , that virtue may , sometimes , be discovered in the man who is in pursuit of military glory ...
... admired ; dead , he is lamented by the people he has subdued ! " Fred . I am glad to find it the opinion , as well of your- self as of others , that virtue may , sometimes , be discovered in the man who is in pursuit of military glory ...
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... admirable ! in action how like an angel ! in apprehension how like a god ! " * — And shall all these noble endowments lie dormant in him ? * Hamlet . shall they not rather be generally called into action ? 24 DIALOGUE II .
... admirable ! in action how like an angel ! in apprehension how like a god ! " * — And shall all these noble endowments lie dormant in him ? * Hamlet . shall they not rather be generally called into action ? 24 DIALOGUE II .
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... admired by women and children . " L'homme n'a ni bien à espérer ni mal à craindre après la mort , " said Aristotle of old ; and I have said the same . Rouss . Thou art surely the most incorrigible of infidels 40 DIALOGUE IV .
... admired by women and children . " L'homme n'a ni bien à espérer ni mal à craindre après la mort , " said Aristotle of old ; and I have said the same . Rouss . Thou art surely the most incorrigible of infidels 40 DIALOGUE IV .
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... admiration on a comet , while an ordinary star is wholly unnoticed by us . For me I have ever appeared with a train of light . Rouss . And not a little eccentric and irregular in your orbit . But that I could readily have pardoned ...
... admiration on a comet , while an ordinary star is wholly unnoticed by us . For me I have ever appeared with a train of light . Rouss . And not a little eccentric and irregular in your orbit . But that I could readily have pardoned ...
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Page 178 - But oh ! what art can teach, What human voice can reach The sacred organ's praise ? Notes inspiring holy love, Notes that wing their heavenly ways To mend the choirs above.
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