The Works of the English Poets, 1. köideH. Hughs, 1779 - 407 pages |
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Page 175
... Persons that look'd no dreadfuller than they ; " They mifs'd courts , guards , a gay and numerous " train- 160 " Our Judges , like their laws , were rude and plain : - " On an old bench of wood , her feat of state " Beneath the well ...
... Persons that look'd no dreadfuller than they ; " They mifs'd courts , guards , a gay and numerous " train- 160 " Our Judges , like their laws , were rude and plain : - " On an old bench of wood , her feat of state " Beneath the well ...
Page 219
... person ? to abafe perfidiously and fupplant in- gratefully his own general * first , and afterwards most of thofe officers , who , with the lofs of their honour , and hazard of their fouls , had lifted him up to the top of his ...
... person ? to abafe perfidiously and fupplant in- gratefully his own general * first , and afterwards most of thofe officers , who , with the lofs of their honour , and hazard of their fouls , had lifted him up to the top of his ...
Page 220
... the rule in the cafe , that , when we fix any infamy upon deceased persons , it should not be done out of hatred to the dead , but out of love and charity charity to the living : that the curfes , which 220 ON THE GOVERNMENT.
... the rule in the cafe , that , when we fix any infamy upon deceased persons , it should not be done out of hatred to the dead , but out of love and charity charity to the living : that the curfes , which 220 ON THE GOVERNMENT.
Page 228
... person of that man , who , from fo con- temptible beginnings ( as I obferved before ) , and through fo many thousand difficulties , was able not only to make himself the greatest and most abfolute monarch of this nation , but to add to ...
... person of that man , who , from fo con- temptible beginnings ( as I obferved before ) , and through fo many thousand difficulties , was able not only to make himself the greatest and most abfolute monarch of this nation , but to add to ...
Page 240
... person , he has given them already ( as we may reasonably hope it to be meant ) a promise and earnest of his future fa- And lastly ( to return clofely to the difcourfe from which I have a little digreffed ) because I fee no- thing of ...
... person , he has given them already ( as we may reasonably hope it to be meant ) a promise and earnest of his future fa- And lastly ( to return clofely to the difcourfe from which I have a little digreffed ) because I fee no- thing of ...
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