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 pages |
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... Happy is he who knows how to quit a rank that is quit- ting him , and to remain still a man in spite of fortune . Let others lavish what encomiums they please on the frantic behaviour of the vanquished monarch who wanted to bury himself ...
... Happy is he who knows how to quit a rank that is quit- ting him , and to remain still a man in spite of fortune . Let others lavish what encomiums they please on the frantic behaviour of the vanquished monarch who wanted to bury himself ...
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... happy , Or our deaths glorious in thy just defence . ADDISON . Cato , act . iii . O MY poor country ! -weak and overpower'd By thine own sons - eat to the bone - devour'd By vipers , which , in thine own entrails bred , Prey on thy life ...
... happy , Or our deaths glorious in thy just defence . ADDISON . Cato , act . iii . O MY poor country ! -weak and overpower'd By thine own sons - eat to the bone - devour'd By vipers , which , in thine own entrails bred , Prey on thy life ...
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... Happy was the man among them , who was so much a favourite as to be sent on an errand to the most remote street in his capital ; which he performed with the greatest alacrity , ran through every puddle that lay in his way , and took ...
... Happy was the man among them , who was so much a favourite as to be sent on an errand to the most remote street in his capital ; which he performed with the greatest alacrity , ran through every puddle that lay in his way , and took ...
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... option than being either ham- mer or anvil . Happy he who gets clear of this alternative ! VOLTAIRE . Philosoph . Dict , art . Tyranny . f 1 1 FREE FREE GOVERNMENTS . THE highest earthly felicity that a people ARISTOCRACY . 109.
... option than being either ham- mer or anvil . Happy he who gets clear of this alternative ! VOLTAIRE . Philosoph . Dict , art . Tyranny . f 1 1 FREE FREE GOVERNMENTS . THE highest earthly felicity that a people ARISTOCRACY . 109.
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... happy situation of mankind ! How favourable to industry , / agriculture , and propagation ! The prolific virtue of men , were it to act in its full extent , without that restraint which poverty and necessity impose on it , would double ...
... happy situation of mankind ! How favourable to industry , / agriculture , and propagation ! The prolific virtue of men , were it to act in its full extent , without that restraint which poverty and necessity impose on it , would double ...
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Page 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,
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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?
Page 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.
Page 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?
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.