Letters Concerning the English NationL. Davis and C. Reymers; R. Baldwin, and S. Crowder and Company, 1760 - 255 страница |
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... themselves as are best ac- quainted with it , confefs daily that they are bewildered and loft ? WHILE this work was in the press , there came to London a manuscript let- ter of Mr. de Voltaire , in answer to the complaints made by the ...
... themselves as are best ac- quainted with it , confefs daily that they are bewildered and loft ? WHILE this work was in the press , there came to London a manuscript let- ter of Mr. de Voltaire , in answer to the complaints made by the ...
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... themselves on the holy Gofpels . We never war or fight in any cafe ; but it is not that we are afraid , for fo far from fhuddering at the thoughts of death , we , on the contrary , blefs the mo- ment which unites us with the Being of ...
... themselves on the holy Gofpels . We never war or fight in any cafe ; but it is not that we are afraid , for fo far from fhuddering at the thoughts of death , we , on the contrary , blefs the mo- ment which unites us with the Being of ...
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... themselves , ' till at last this light spread itself in England in 1642 . ' TWAS at the time when Great Britain was torn to pieces by the inteftine wars , which three or four fects had rais'd in the name of God , that one George Fox ...
... themselves , ' till at last this light spread itself in England in 1642 . ' TWAS at the time when Great Britain was torn to pieces by the inteftine wars , which three or four fects had rais'd in the name of God , that one George Fox ...
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... the nofe ; they quak'd , and fancied themselves infpir'd by the Holy Ghost . The only thing now wanting was a few miracles , and accordingly they wrought fome . Fox , this modern patriarch , spoke thus to a Fox , 7 LETTERS concerning 16.
... the nofe ; they quak'd , and fancied themselves infpir'd by the Holy Ghost . The only thing now wanting was a few miracles , and accordingly they wrought fome . Fox , this modern patriarch , spoke thus to a Fox , 7 LETTERS concerning 16.
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... Whigs , as fome imagin'd , were for abolishing it ; however , after these had got the upper hand , they contented themselves with only abridging its power . AT the time when the earl of Oxford and the C 3 AT the ENGLISH NATION . 29.
... Whigs , as fome imagin'd , were for abolishing it ; however , after these had got the upper hand , they contented themselves with only abridging its power . AT the time when the earl of Oxford and the C 3 AT the ENGLISH NATION . 29.
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Страница 170 - For, that sad moment, when the sylphs withdrew, And Ariel weeping from Belinda flew, Umbriel, a dusky, melancholy sprite, As ever sullied the fair face of light, Down to the central earth, his proper scene, Repair'd to search the gloomy cave of Spleen.
Страница 18 - ... is both to God and man : If after all these warnings and advertisements, thou dost not turn unto the Lord with all thy heart, but forget him, who remembered thee in thy distress, and give up thyself to follow lust and vanity; surely great will be thy condemnation.
Страница 136 - No Traveller returns) puzzles the Will ; And makes us rather bear thofe Ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of. Thus...
Страница 148 - He was infirm and come to the verge of life when I knew him. Mr. Congreve had one defect, which was his entertaining too mean an idea of his first profession (that of a writer), though it was to this he owed his fame and fortune.
Страница 18 - Against which snare as well as the temptation of those that may or do feed thee, and prompt thee to evil, the most excellent and prevalent remedy will be, to apply thyself to that Light of Christ, which shineth in thy...
Страница 135 - To be, or not to be : that is the queftion— — — Whether 'tis nobler in the mind, to fuffer The flings and arrows of outragious fortune j Or to take arms againft a fea of troubles, * And by oppofing end them.
Страница 171 - She sighs for ever on her pensive bed, Pain at her side, and Megrim at her head. Two handmaids wait the throne: alike in place, But differing far in figure and in face.