The Public Life of Thomas Cooper, 1783-1839 |
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... philosophical , and scientific . " In America he was regarded as very learned in the law , as he undoubtedly was , and he made elaborate and valuable suggestions about legal education , as became his reputed omniscience . At the ...
... philosophical , and scientific . " In America he was regarded as very learned in the law , as he undoubtedly was , and he made elaborate and valuable suggestions about legal education , as became his reputed omniscience . At the ...
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... Philosophical Society were doubtless men of conservative temper , but it was their avowed purpose to stimulate ... Philosophical Society , Manchester , " appendix II , List of Members and Officers , pp . 47-8 . 17 " Observations ...
... Philosophical Society were doubtless men of conservative temper , but it was their avowed purpose to stimulate ... Philosophical Society , Manchester , " appendix II , List of Members and Officers , pp . 47-8 . 17 " Observations ...
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... philosophers of revolution in his day , Cooper gave mild approval to Dr. Richard Price and expressed indiscreet enthusiasm for Thomas Paine , " so he may be regarded as a promulgator of the doctrines of the revolutionists . The point of ...
... philosophers of revolution in his day , Cooper gave mild approval to Dr. Richard Price and expressed indiscreet enthusiasm for Thomas Paine , " so he may be regarded as a promulgator of the doctrines of the revolutionists . The point of ...
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... philosophical matters had not Cooper been lured from the quiet paths of abstract thought . He was correcting the tracts meant for a second volume of essays when the subject of the slave trade began to be agitated , and , while his ...
... philosophical matters had not Cooper been lured from the quiet paths of abstract thought . He was correcting the tracts meant for a second volume of essays when the subject of the slave trade began to be agitated , and , while his ...
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... Philosophical Society added their signatures to a second recommenda- tion , but he was rejected by a much greater majority than before.85 Priestley , who was surprised and indignant at this rejection , attributed it entirely to the ...
... Philosophical Society added their signatures to a second recommenda- tion , but he was rejected by a much greater majority than before.85 Priestley , who was surprised and indignant at this rejection , attributed it entirely to the ...
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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 322 - But when he goes on to give to his accusation " a local habitation and a name," by quoting the expression of a distinguished citizen of South Carolina (Dr. Cooper), "that it was time for the South to calculate the value of the Union...
Page 322 - The tendency of all these ideas and sentiments is obviously to bring the union into discussion, as a mere question of present and temporary expediency — nothing more than a mere matter of profit and loss. The union is to be preserved, while it suits local and temporary purposes to preserve it; and to be sundered whenever it shall be found to thwart such purposes.
Page 237 - I would write to him finally, and request his decision, and expect him, if he accepted, to come on in early spring. From all this it appears to me that we are bound, not only in consistency and reputation, but in law, if Dr. Cooper accepts our propositions. And why should- we wish otherwise ? Cooper is acknowledged by every enlightened man who knows him, to be the greatest man in America, in the powers of mind, and in acquired information ; and that, without a single exception.
Page 322 - Union is to be preserved, while it suits local and temporary purposes to preserve it; and to be sundered whenever it shall be found to thwart such purposes. Union, of itself, is considered by the disciples of this school as hardly a good. It is only regarded as a possible means of good ; or, on the other hand, as a possible means of evil. They cherish no deep and fixed regard for it, flowing from a thorough conviction of its absolute and vital necessity to our welfare. Sir, I deprecate and deplore...
Page 309 - 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 412 - 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 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 261 - ... in favour of the Presbyterians, a Church establishment. Of these designs on the part of that sect I am as fully persuaded as I am of my own existence; and what is worse, I greatly fear they will succeed. The people, not aware of the frauds committed, are the gross dupes of missionary societies...