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Pagina 18
... favoured us with some Greek of his own . " At the altar , " says Dr. Johnson , " I recommend my ♪ . « . ' " These letters , " says the editor , " ( which Dr. Strahan seems not to have understood , ) probably mean Sintai pinor ...
... favoured us with some Greek of his own . " At the altar , " says Dr. Johnson , " I recommend my ♪ . « . ' " These letters , " says the editor , " ( which Dr. Strahan seems not to have understood , ) probably mean Sintai pinor ...
Pagina 32
... favour of Dorset , and imitated through the whole course of his life the liberality to which he was himself so greatly indebted . The Tory leaders , Harley and Bolingbroke in particular , vied with the chiefs of the Whig party in zeal ...
... favour of Dorset , and imitated through the whole course of his life the liberality to which he was himself so greatly indebted . The Tory leaders , Harley and Bolingbroke in particular , vied with the chiefs of the Whig party in zeal ...
Pagina 33
... favour of Halifax had turned into states- men , had been mere incumbrances to their party , dawdlers in office , and mutes in Parliament . During the whole course of his administration , therefore , he scarcely patronised a single man ...
... favour of Halifax had turned into states- men , had been mere incumbrances to their party , dawdlers in office , and mutes in Parliament . During the whole course of his administration , therefore , he scarcely patronised a single man ...
Pagina 55
... favoured by Henry the Seventh . Under the Tudors , the family was great and flourishing . Griffith Hampden , high sheriff of Buckinghamshire , entertained Elizabeth with great magnificence at his seat . His son , William Hampden , sate ...
... favoured by Henry the Seventh . Under the Tudors , the family was great and flourishing . Griffith Hampden , high sheriff of Buckinghamshire , entertained Elizabeth with great magnificence at his seat . His son , William Hampden , sate ...
Pagina 73
... favour . But , after a time , the govern- ment took a step for which no precedent could be pleaded , and sent writs of ship - money to the inland counties . This was a stretch of power on which Elizabeth herself had not ventured , even ...
... favour . But , after a time , the govern- ment took a step for which no precedent could be pleaded , and sent writs of ship - money to the inland counties . This was a stretch of power on which Elizabeth herself had not ventured , even ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 357 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.
Pagina 40 - Campbell is a good man, a pious man. I am afraid he has not been in the inside of a church for many years * ; but he never passes a church without pulling off his hat. This shows that he has good principles.
Pagina 399 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Pagina 399 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Pagina 399 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearselike airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Pagina 399 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; .and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Pagina 212 - C'est pure medisance : il ne 1'a jamais e"te". Tout ce qu'il faisait, c'est qu'il etait fort obligeant, fort officieux ; et comme il se connaissait fort bien en etoffes, il en allait choisir de tous les cotes, les faisait apporter chez lui, et en donnait a ses amis pour de 1'argent.
Pagina 46 - Sir Adam introduced the ancient Greeks and Romans. JOHNSON, " Sir, the mass of both of them were barbarians. The mass of every people must be barbarous where there is no printing, and consequently knowledge is not generally diffused. Knowledge is diffused among our people by the newspapers.
Pagina 344 - it is my act, my hand, my heart. I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed.
Pagina 376 - ... the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god. The aim of the Baconian philosophy was to provide man with what he requires while he continues to be man. The aim of the Platonic philosophy was to raise us far above vulgar wants. The aim of the Baconian philosophy was to supply our vulgar wants. The former aim was noble ; but the latter was attainable.