The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, 41. köideR. Griffiths, 1769 |
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... equal to that of his fanctity . Bold and original in all his plans , his political conduct flowed from his real character , and partook both of its virtues and its defect :. His extenfive genius fuggefted to him fchemes , vaft and ...
... equal to that of his fanctity . Bold and original in all his plans , his political conduct flowed from his real character , and partook both of its virtues and its defect :. His extenfive genius fuggefted to him fchemes , vaft and ...
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and would have reduced the latter from the rank of equals , to the condition of subjects . Fall of thefe ideas , they all turned their eyes towards Frederick , duke of Saxony , a prince of fuch eminent virtue , and abilities , as to be ...
and would have reduced the latter from the rank of equals , to the condition of subjects . Fall of thefe ideas , they all turned their eyes towards Frederick , duke of Saxony , a prince of fuch eminent virtue , and abilities , as to be ...
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... equal to the tafk ; nor do I imagine it can be performed by any fingle per- fon , but must be compleated , if ever , by the fucceffive endea- vours of many and on this very plea I found my juftification . For although what can be ...
... equal to the tafk ; nor do I imagine it can be performed by any fingle per- fon , but must be compleated , if ever , by the fucceffive endea- vours of many and on this very plea I found my juftification . For although what can be ...
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... equal affiduity and fuccefs . In the chapter on Judgment we have a juft , though mortifying , reprefentation of the fallibility and uncertainty of human knowledge : which ought not to make us doubt of the clear judgments of our ...
... equal affiduity and fuccefs . In the chapter on Judgment we have a juft , though mortifying , reprefentation of the fallibility and uncertainty of human knowledge : which ought not to make us doubt of the clear judgments of our ...
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... equal value . There are various fpecies of men , in various parts of the earth , characterized by colour and features ; but none of these distinctions can establish a fuperiority of one class over another , that cannot be converted to ...
... equal value . There are various fpecies of men , in various parts of the earth , characterized by colour and features ; but none of these distinctions can establish a fuperiority of one class over another , that cannot be converted to ...
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Page 104 - And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.
Page 381 - AWAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot, Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 143 - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend: so Caesar may; Then, lest he may, prevent.
Page 93 - He resolved to celebrate his own obsequies before his death. He ordered his tomb to be erected in the chapel of the monastery. His domestics marched thither in funeral procession, with black tapers in their hands. He himself followed in his shroud. He was laid in his coffin, with much solemnity.
Page 93 - The service for the dead was chanted, and Charles joined in the prayers which were offered up for the rest of his soul, mingling his tears with those which his attendants shed, as if they had been celebrating a real funeral.
Page 33 - I am apt to suspect the negroes, and in general all the other species of men (for there are four or five different kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites.
Page 91 - ... from levity. Charles deliberated long, and determined with coolness ; but having once fixed his plan, he adhered to it with inflexible obstinacy, and neither danger nor discouragement could turn him aside from the execution of it.
Page 92 - Francis, by his impetuous activity, often disconcerted the emperor's best laid schemes: Charles, by a more calm but steady prosecution of his designs, checked the rapidity of his rival's career, and baffled or repulsed his most vigorous efforts. The former, at the opening of a war or of a...
Page 295 - ... tempt a man to conclude that he may not at some time or other be deeply interested in these researches. The infirmities of the best among us, the vices and ungovernable passions of others, the instability of all human affairs, and the numberless...
Page 91 - ... and more patient of fatigue. The talents and abilities of the two monarchs were as...