The British Plutarch [by T. Mortimer].Samuel Archer, 1810 |
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... returned from Leyden to London ; where , though under age , he found himself his own master ; from which source owed all the inconveniences that attended him throughout the remainder of his life . The brilliancy of his wit , the ...
... returned from Leyden to London ; where , though under age , he found himself his own master ; from which source owed all the inconveniences that attended him throughout the remainder of his life . The brilliancy of his wit , the ...
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... more than three years at Utrecht , Mr. Lardner removed to Leyden , where he studied about six months . In 1703 , he returned to England , in company with Mr. Tomkins and Mr. Neal ; and from that time The Life of Dr Nathaniel Lardner.
... more than three years at Utrecht , Mr. Lardner removed to Leyden , where he studied about six months . In 1703 , he returned to England , in company with Mr. Tomkins and Mr. Neal ; and from that time The Life of Dr Nathaniel Lardner.
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... returned to London . Here for many years he had employment as a preacher in several chapels ; with the emoluments of which , and a decent competency of his own , he supported himself and his family in a respectable , though private ...
... returned to London . Here for many years he had employment as a preacher in several chapels ; with the emoluments of which , and a decent competency of his own , he supported himself and his family in a respectable , though private ...
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... returned through , was not the same we came by , we crossed the Rhone at Seyssel , and passed for three days among the mountains of Bugue , without meeting with any thing new : at last we came out into the plains of La Bresse , and so ...
... returned through , was not the same we came by , we crossed the Rhone at Seyssel , and passed for three days among the mountains of Bugue , without meeting with any thing new : at last we came out into the plains of La Bresse , and so ...
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Thomas Mortimer. casional servant . He returned to England in September , 1741 , and in about two months after buried his father ; who had , by an injudicious waste of money upon a new house , so much lessened his fortune , that Gray ...
Thomas Mortimer. casional servant . He returned to England in September , 1741 , and in about two months after buried his father ; who had , by an injudicious waste of money upon a new house , so much lessened his fortune , that Gray ...
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الصفحة 282 - How blest is he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly...
الصفحة 151 - I do; I know their virtues and their valor; I know they can achieve anything but impossibilities; and I know that the conquest of British America is an impossibility. You cannot, my Lords, you cannot conquer America. What is your present situation there ? We do not know the worst; but we know that in three campaigns we have done nothing, and suffered much.
الصفحة 206 - Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.
الصفحة 278 - Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail, Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale ; Or press the bashful stranger to his food, And learn the luxury of doing good.
الصفحة 147 - For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies...
الصفحة 278 - REMOTE, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po ; Or onward, where the rude Carinthian boor Against the houseless stranger shuts the door ; Or where Campania's plain forsaken lies, A weary waste expanding to the skies ; Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravell'd fondly turns to thee ; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
الصفحة 92 - So that, upon the whole, we may conclude, that the Christian Religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity : And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience.
الصفحة 146 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
الصفحة 152 - To call into civilized alliance the wild and inhuman savage of the woods ; to delegate to the merciless Indian the defence of disputed rights, and to wage the horrors of his barbarous war against our brethren?
الصفحة 152 - If I were an American as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never, never, never!