The Worthies of Yorkshire and Lancashire;: Being Lives of the Most Distinguished Persons that Have Been Born In, Or Connected With, Those ProvincesWhittaker and Company; Simpkin, Marshall, and Company; John Cross, Leeds; Bancks and Company Manchester; Grapel, Liverpool., 1836 - 732 Seiten |
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... moral economist to infer the progress of corruption from the increase of illegitimate births : but to men whose thoughts and feelings travel in the " high - way of the world , " its all - levelling uniformity presents neither amusement ...
... moral economist to infer the progress of corruption from the increase of illegitimate births : but to men whose thoughts and feelings travel in the " high - way of the world , " its all - levelling uniformity presents neither amusement ...
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... ; and enables the purged eye to " look into the seeds of time . " But if the consideration be private , fireside , moral usefulness , we think the bene- fits of historical reading as a necessary department of education INTRODUCTORY ESSAY .
... ; and enables the purged eye to " look into the seeds of time . " But if the consideration be private , fireside , moral usefulness , we think the bene- fits of historical reading as a necessary department of education INTRODUCTORY ESSAY .
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... moral poison . Why is the " murderous Machiavél " a by - word of abhorrence ? Whence is it , that while the bloody deeds of conquerors shine fair in story and in song , as the wounds of the Faithful in Moslem Paradise , the master ...
... moral poison . Why is the " murderous Machiavél " a by - word of abhorrence ? Whence is it , that while the bloody deeds of conquerors shine fair in story and in song , as the wounds of the Faithful in Moslem Paradise , the master ...
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... moral , and immortal . For simply to think of a man as a sentient being , is incon- sistent with that hard - hearted policy which would employ him , reckless of his suffering or enjoyment , like a wedge or a rivet , to build up the idol ...
... moral , and immortal . For simply to think of a man as a sentient being , is incon- sistent with that hard - hearted policy which would employ him , reckless of his suffering or enjoyment , like a wedge or a rivet , to build up the idol ...
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... moral virtues put together ; and yet I assure you he hath several times obliged Moral Virtue so highly , that she owes him a good turn wherever she can meet him . But it is a brave thing to be the ecclesiastical Drawcansir : he kills ...
... moral virtues put together ; and yet I assure you he hath several times obliged Moral Virtue so highly , that she owes him a good turn wherever she can meet him . But it is a brave thing to be the ecclesiastical Drawcansir : he kills ...
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Seite 269 - My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Seite 690 - I been depos'd, if you had reign'd! The father had descended for the son, For only you are lineal to the throne. Thus when the state one Edward did depose, A greater Edward in his room arose. But now, not I, but poetry is curs'd, For Tom the Second reigns like Tom the First. But let 'em not mistake my patron's part, Nor call his charity their own desert. Yet this I prophesy: thou shalt be seen (Tho...
Seite 62 - Though Justice against Fate complain, And plead the ancient rights in vain: But those do hold or break As men are strong or weak.
Seite 270 - The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore : 10 Plain living and high thinking are no more...
Seite 59 - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England...
Seite 313 - I must do it, as it were in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened ; yea, presently, sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways, which I will not name for the honor I bear them, so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
Seite 508 - Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven ! — Oh ! times, In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways Of custom, law, and statute, took at once The attraction of a country in Romance...
Seite 72 - When I wrote my Treatise about our System *, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose.
Seite 90 - What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?
Seite 262 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.