The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volumen7David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher Munroe & Francis, 1809 vol. 3-4 include appendix: "The Political cabinet." |
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... tion from the object most dear to him , unless the motives that sup- port it are destroyed . But if injuries that revolt are substituted for arguments that convince , we are sure to strengthen the adhesion to principles which are rooted ...
... tion from the object most dear to him , unless the motives that sup- port it are destroyed . But if injuries that revolt are substituted for arguments that convince , we are sure to strengthen the adhesion to principles which are rooted ...
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... tion of positive rules , when they are minute and complex . It may even be difficult to retain them for any length of time . But by diligent habits of reading and transcribing Greek with accuracy , a philosophical sense of the ...
... tion of positive rules , when they are minute and complex . It may even be difficult to retain them for any length of time . But by diligent habits of reading and transcribing Greek with accuracy , a philosophical sense of the ...
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... tion have been conducted to the present times in aliving line , like the mysteries of ancient philosophy and religion . When Brutus perished , the last of the Romans perished ; but in the death of professor Por- son it is to be hoped we ...
... tion have been conducted to the present times in aliving line , like the mysteries of ancient philosophy and religion . When Brutus perished , the last of the Romans perished ; but in the death of professor Por- son it is to be hoped we ...
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... tion . It is natural for the men of any government to turn to its ancient history , if they mean to make the government their study or their object . This is sometimes done from an impulse of van- ity . Princes affect the Caesars . But ...
... tion . It is natural for the men of any government to turn to its ancient history , if they mean to make the government their study or their object . This is sometimes done from an impulse of van- ity . Princes affect the Caesars . But ...
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... tion which it is to be hoped every man is prepared to despise on first acquaintance . Any one who is not willing to make his head the footstool for aspiring insolence to mount , must feel the gorge of contempt rising at such efforts to ...
... tion which it is to be hoped every man is prepared to despise on first acquaintance . Any one who is not willing to make his head the footstool for aspiring insolence to mount , must feel the gorge of contempt rising at such efforts to ...
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Página 313 - I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Página 35 - Give you a reason on compulsion ! if reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I. P.
Página 316 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Página 35 - My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree; Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree; All several sins, all us'd in each degree, Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty, guilty!
Página 39 - He continued to the end of his life the teacher of a congregation; and no reader of his works can doubt his fidelity or diligence. In the pulpit, though his low stature, which very little exceeded five feet, graced him with no advantages of appearance, yet the gravity and propriety of his utterance made his discourses very efficacious.
Página 54 - Scripture, can derive itself from the fountain ; but may be plainly proved, either to have been brought in, in such an age after Christ, or that in such an age it was not in. In a word, there is no sufficient certainty but of Scripture only for any considering man to build upon. This, therefore, and this only, I have reason to believe; this I will profess ; according to this I will live ; and for this, if there be occasion, I will not only willingly, but even gladly lose my life ; though I should...
Página 256 - He for the passage sought, attempted since So much in vain, and seeming to be shut By jealous Nature with eternal bars. In these fell regions, in Arzina caught, And to the stony deep his idle ship Immediate seal'd, he with his hapless crew Each full exerted at his several task, Froze into statues; to the cordage glued The sailor, and the pilot to the helm.
Página 234 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Página 100 - Certainly the ablest men that ever were have had all an openness and frankness of dealing, and a name of certainty and veracity: but then they were like horses well managed, for they could tell passing well when to stop or turn...
Página 149 - 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.