The Manual of Liberty, Or, Testimonies in Behalf of the Rights of Mankind; Selected from the Best Authorities, in Prose and Verse, and Methodically ArrangedH. D. Symonds, 1795 - 406 páginas |
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... fortune of war which has put the whip into our hands now- where it may be hereafter , heaven knows ! but be it where it will , the brave , Trim , will not use it un- kindly . -God forbid , said the Corporal . Amen responded my Uncle ...
... fortune of war which has put the whip into our hands now- where it may be hereafter , heaven knows ! but be it where it will , the brave , Trim , will not use it un- kindly . -God forbid , said the Corporal . Amen responded my Uncle ...
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... fortune , whom prosperity has benumbed , think that the miseries of the people are exagge rated , and that injustice is only mistake . KING OF PRUSSIA . Correspondence with Voltaire , let . 309 . THERE is no more inward value in the ...
... fortune , whom prosperity has benumbed , think that the miseries of the people are exagge rated , and that injustice is only mistake . KING OF PRUSSIA . Correspondence with Voltaire , let . 309 . THERE is no more inward value in the ...
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... fortune . I am sorry L " have a gentleman in my kingdom who is base " enough to be ignorant , that ease and distinction " of fortune were bestowed on him but to this " end , that , being at rest from all cares of pro- viaing for himself ...
... fortune . I am sorry L " have a gentleman in my kingdom who is base " enough to be ignorant , that ease and distinction " of fortune were bestowed on him but to this " end , that , being at rest from all cares of pro- viaing for himself ...
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... fortune gives is empty and imaginary ; " and I perceive too late , that only things of use " are naturally honourable . I am ashamed when " I compare my malice with your humanity . But " if the gods should please to call me to a repos ...
... fortune gives is empty and imaginary ; " and I perceive too late , that only things of use " are naturally honourable . I am ashamed when " I compare my malice with your humanity . But " if the gods should please to call me to a repos ...
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... fortune . Let others lavish what encomiums they please on the frantic behaviour of the vanquished monarch who wanted to bury himself alive in the ruins of his throne ; for my part , I hold him in contempt . It appears to me that his ...
... fortune . Let others lavish what encomiums they please on the frantic behaviour of the vanquished monarch who wanted to bury himself alive in the ruins of his throne ; for my part , I hold him in contempt . It appears to me that his ...
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Página 35 - tis true, this god did shake ; His coward lips did from their colour fly, And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world Did lose his lustre : I did hear him groan : Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark him and write his speeches in their books, Alas, it cried, 'Give me some drink, Titinius,
Página 318 - Let it pry through the portage of the head. Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it. As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Página 279 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Página 41 - They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; That opened not the house of his prisoners?
Página 291 - Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain.
Página 39 - Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now ? your gambols ? your songs ? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Página 297 - THE first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
Página 336 - Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic. Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell.
Página 236 - I smile, And cry, Content, to that which grieves my heart ; And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions.