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... feeling , it would be sometimes amusing to observe the ignorance or prejudice respecting the sentiments of Mr. Burke on a variety of public matters which prevails among many persons , who at a venture attribute to him any thing that ...
... feeling , it would be sometimes amusing to observe the ignorance or prejudice respecting the sentiments of Mr. Burke on a variety of public matters which prevails among many persons , who at a venture attribute to him any thing that ...
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... feeling a strong partiality for the boy , found amusement in communicating the rudiments of learn- ing to his infant mind . The air of the country , however , being deemed essential to give vigour to his frame , he was re- moved from ...
... feeling a strong partiality for the boy , found amusement in communicating the rudiments of learn- ing to his infant mind . The air of the country , however , being deemed essential to give vigour to his frame , he was re- moved from ...
Page 90
... feeling between them , which nothing after- ward served to diminish ; surviving occasional sharp contentions for victory in conversation , the clashing of opposite political attachments and opinions , the almost irreconcileable feuds ...
... feeling between them , which nothing after- ward served to diminish ; surviving occasional sharp contentions for victory in conversation , the clashing of opposite political attachments and opinions , the almost irreconcileable feuds ...
Page 93
... feeling of supe- rior information on such matters , with which he had met them , because changed to something like amaze- ment at the splendour , depth , and variety of the conversation of one of the strangers . No matter what topic ...
... feeling of supe- rior information on such matters , with which he had met them , because changed to something like amaze- ment at the splendour , depth , and variety of the conversation of one of the strangers . No matter what topic ...
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... feelings of admiration and contempt ; -of admiration for the honest independence of principle of one man , contrasted with the unusual degree of tyranny and meanness exhibited by another . For , whether Hamilton wished to give the ...
... feelings of admiration and contempt ; -of admiration for the honest independence of principle of one man , contrasted with the unusual degree of tyranny and meanness exhibited by another . For , whether Hamilton wished to give the ...
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Page 289 - Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Page 170 - So spake the Seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among the faithless faithful only he ; Among innumerable false unmoved. Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Page 273 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Page 303 - But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance ; it is the dissidence of dissent ; and the protestantism of the protestant religion.
Page 299 - In this character of the Americans a love of freedom is the predominating feature, which marks and distinguishes the whole ; and as an ardent is always a jealous affection, your colonies become suspicious, restive, and untractable, whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonies probably than in any other people of the earth...
Page 109 - ... his real power is not shown in the splendour of particular passages, but by the progress of his fable and the tenor of his dialogue ; and he that tries to recommend him by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in Hierocles, who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen.
Page 163 - ... a cabinet so variously inlaid; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tessellated pavement without cement; here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white; patriots and courtiers; king's friends and republicans; Whigs and Tories; treacherous friends and open enemies; that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on.
Page 506 - I impeach him in the name of the people of India, whose laws, rights, and liberties he has subverted ; whose properties he has destroyed, whose country he has laid waste and desolate. I impeach him in the name, and by virtue of those eternal laws of justice, which he has violated. I impeach him in the name of human nature itself, which he has cruelly outraged, injured, and oppressed in both sexes, in every age, rank, situation, and condition of life.
Page 307 - The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your, people miserable ; but whether it is not your interest to make them happy.
Page 306 - Sir, I think you must perceive that I am resolved this day to have nothing at all to do with the question of the right of taxation. Some gentlemen startle, but it is true. I put it totally out of the question. It is less than nothing in my consideration.