Occasional Essays on Various Subjects: Chiefly Political and Historical; Extracted Partly from the Publick Newspapers, During the Present Reign, and Partly from Tracts Published in the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth, King Charles I., King Charles II, and from Bishop Burnet's History of His Own TimesFrancis Maseres R. Wilks, 1809 - 607 páginas |
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... feems to me to be a reasonable conftruction of this famous refolution : and if the words of it will bear this fenfe , as I flatter myself I have shown they will , it is furely better to understand them in this manner than to interpret ...
... feems to me to be a reasonable conftruction of this famous refolution : and if the words of it will bear this fenfe , as I flatter myself I have shown they will , it is furely better to understand them in this manner than to interpret ...
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... feems the moft proper legislature for the province . And to the establishment of fuch an Affembly but few objections can now be made ; fince the English fettlers in the province , on the one hand , have declared that they are willing to ...
... feems the moft proper legislature for the province . And to the establishment of fuch an Affembly but few objections can now be made ; fince the English fettlers in the province , on the one hand , have declared that they are willing to ...
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... feems abfolutely neceffary , that the " numbers of the Council fhould be increafed ; and for this " plain and obvious reason , Because a body of Twenty - four " Counsellors , for inftance , appointed by the King from the " first rank of ...
... feems abfolutely neceffary , that the " numbers of the Council fhould be increafed ; and for this " plain and obvious reason , Because a body of Twenty - four " Counsellors , for inftance , appointed by the King from the " first rank of ...
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... feems reasonable to hope that it would be gene- rally approved and accepted by them ; and yet the fupreme authority of the Parliament of Great - Britain would not be given - up . F. M. ON THE INEXPEDIENCY OF ESTABLISHING BISHOPS IN ...
... feems reasonable to hope that it would be gene- rally approved and accepted by them ; and yet the fupreme authority of the Parliament of Great - Britain would not be given - up . F. M. ON THE INEXPEDIENCY OF ESTABLISHING BISHOPS IN ...
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... feems by no means improbable " that a most judicious piece of policy which has lately been " adopted with refpect to the great province of Quebeck , " may be extended to the other provinces of North - Ame- rica : I mean the measure of ...
... feems by no means improbable " that a most judicious piece of policy which has lately been " adopted with refpect to the great province of Quebeck , " may be extended to the other provinces of North - Ame- rica : I mean the measure of ...
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Página 194 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys" a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the Earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Página 238 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Página 206 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised, and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather ; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.
Página 235 - And when every stone is laid artfully together, it cannot be united into a continuity, it can but be contiguous in this world...
Página 206 - As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary...
Página 68 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...
Página 423 - Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall; and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
Página 194 - ... and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
Página 211 - There must be licensing dancers, that no gesture, motion or deportment be taught our youth but what by their allowance shall be thought honest; for such Plato was provided of.
Página 235 - When they have branched themselves out, saith he, small enough into parties and partitions, then will be our time. Fool ! he sees not the firm root, out of which we all grow, though into branches: nor will beware until he see our small divided maniples cutting through at every angle of his ill-united and unwieldy brigade.