Political tracts. Political essays. Miscellaneous essays. A journey to the Western Islands of ScotlandJ. Buckland, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Payne and Sons, L. Davis, B. White and Son ... [and 36 others in London], 1787 |
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Halaman 29
... feven . Few love their friends fo well as not to defire fuperiority by unexpensive benefaction . Yet , notwithstanding all these motives to com- pliance , the promoters of petitions have not been fuccefsful . Few could be perfuaded to ...
... feven . Few love their friends fo well as not to defire fuperiority by unexpensive benefaction . Yet , notwithstanding all these motives to com- pliance , the promoters of petitions have not been fuccefsful . Few could be perfuaded to ...
Halaman 42
... feven hundred miles round , and reprefented it as a region naked indeed of wood , but which , if that defect were sup- plied , would have all that nature , almost all that luxury could want . The harbour he found capaci- ous and secure ...
... feven hundred miles round , and reprefented it as a region naked indeed of wood , but which , if that defect were sup- plied , would have all that nature , almost all that luxury could want . The harbour he found capaci- ous and secure ...
Halaman 47
... feven cannon , four mortars , and two hundred bombs . The fleet con- fifted of five frigates , from twenty to thirty guns , which were now ftationed oppofite to the Block- house . He then fent them a formal memorial , in which he ...
... feven cannon , four mortars , and two hundred bombs . The fleet con- fifted of five frigates , from twenty to thirty guns , which were now ftationed oppofite to the Block- house . He then fent them a formal memorial , in which he ...
Halaman 125
... feven years , we infer with Mr. Mauduit , that by this folemn compact , they were , after expiration of the ftipulated term , liable to taxation . When When they apply to our compaffion , by telling us TAXATION NO TYRANNY . 125.
... feven years , we infer with Mr. Mauduit , that by this folemn compact , they were , after expiration of the ftipulated term , liable to taxation . When When they apply to our compaffion , by telling us TAXATION NO TYRANNY . 125.
Halaman 261
... feven hundred thou- fand pounds . From 1732 to 1742 , a million and two hundred thousand pounds were every year brought to London ; in fome years afterwards three S 3 millions ; millions ; and in 1755 , near four millions of OF EIGHT ...
... feven hundred thou- fand pounds . From 1732 to 1742 , a million and two hundred thousand pounds were every year brought to London ; in fome years afterwards three S 3 millions ; millions ; and in 1755 , near four millions of OF EIGHT ...
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Halaman 206 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Halaman 497 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and...
Halaman 193 - As to your first query, it seems to me that if the matter of our sun and planets and all the matter of the universe were evenly scattered throughout all the heavens, and every particle had an innate gravity towards all the rest, and the whole space throughout which this matter was scattered was...
Halaman 143 - The time is now come, in which every Englishman expects to be informed of the national affairs ; and in which he has a right to have that expectation gratified. For, whatever may be urged by ministers, or those whom vanity or interest make the followers of ministers, concerning the necessity of confidence in our...
Halaman 450 - Books are faithful repositories, which may be a while neglected or forgotten; but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction: memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. Written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has passed away, is again bright in its proper station. Tradition is but a meteor, which, if once it falls, cannot be rekindled.
Halaman 196 - ... opinion, inconsistent with the hypothesis of innate gravity, without a supernatural power to reconcile them ; and therefore it infers a Deity. For if there be innate gravity...
Halaman 367 - Out of one of the beds on which we were to repose started up, at our entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge.
Halaman 214 - WHEN we have before us such objects as excite love and complacency ; the body is affected, so far as I could observe, much in the following manner : the head reclines something on one side ; the eye-lids are more closed than usual, and the eyes roll gently with an inclination to the object ; the mouth is a little opened, and the breath drawn slowly, with now and then a low sigh ; the whole body is composed, and the hands fall idly to the sides. All this is accompanied with an inward sense of melting...
Halaman 241 - The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it...
Halaman 458 - It would be easy to shew it if he had it ; but whence could it be had? It is too long to be remembered, and the language formerly had nothing written. He has...