Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event: In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in ParisJ. Dodsley, 1791 - 364 páginas |
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... say , that the virtues of such men were to be taken as a balance to their crimes ; but they were fome corrective to their effects . Such was , as I faid , our Cromwell . Such were your whole race of Guises , Condés , and Colignis . Such ...
... say , that the virtues of such men were to be taken as a balance to their crimes ; but they were fome corrective to their effects . Such was , as I faid , our Cromwell . Such were your whole race of Guises , Condés , and Colignis . Such ...
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... say , that the road to emi- nence and power , from obfcure condition , ought not to be made too eafy , nor a thing too much of courfe . If rare merit be the rareft of all rare things , it ought to pass through fome fort of probation ...
... say , that the road to emi- nence and power , from obfcure condition , ought not to be made too eafy , nor a thing too much of courfe . If rare merit be the rareft of all rare things , it ought to pass through fome fort of probation ...
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... says , " perhaps we must wait for the fall of the civil powers before this most un- " natural alliance be broken . Calamitous no " doubt will that time be . But what conval- " fion in the political world ought to be a fub- ec ject of ...
... says , " perhaps we must wait for the fall of the civil powers before this most un- " natural alliance be broken . Calamitous no " doubt will that time be . But what conval- " fion in the political world ought to be a fub- ec ject of ...
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... say with old Simeon , Lord , now letteft thou thy fervant depart in peace , for mine eyes have feen thy falvation . " Peters had not the fruits of his prayer ; for he neither departed fo foon as he wished , nor in peace . He became ...
... say with old Simeon , Lord , now letteft thou thy fervant depart in peace , for mine eyes have feen thy falvation . " Peters had not the fruits of his prayer ; for he neither departed fo foon as he wished , nor in peace . He became ...
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... say it , very forry indeed , that fuch perfonages are in a fituation in which it is not unbecoming in us to praise the virtues of the great . I hear , and I rejoice to hear , that the great lady , the other object of the triumph , has ...
... say it , very forry indeed , that fuch perfonages are in a fituation in which it is not unbecoming in us to praise the virtues of the great . I hear , and I rejoice to hear , that the great lady , the other object of the triumph , has ...
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