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... evident that the inns will be best where the means of moving are worst . The quicker the rate of travel- ling the less important it is that there should be numerous agreeable resting places for the traveller . A hundred and 8 HANDBOOK OF.
... evident that the inns will be best where the means of moving are worst . The quicker the rate of travel- ling the less important it is that there should be numerous agreeable resting places for the traveller . A hundred and 8 HANDBOOK OF.
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... important transaction in which he was engaged increased his reputa- tion for talent , and confirmed his character as a stern enemy to vice , a steadfast friend to merit , a just and faithful servant of his country . The honest loved him ...
... important transaction in which he was engaged increased his reputa- tion for talent , and confirmed his character as a stern enemy to vice , a steadfast friend to merit , a just and faithful servant of his country . The honest loved him ...
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... importance , so that any one thing whatever may , for aught we know to the contrary , be a necessary condition to any other . The natural world , then , and natural govern- ment of it , being such an incomprehensible scheme - so ...
... importance , so that any one thing whatever may , for aught we know to the contrary , be a necessary condition to any other . The natural world , then , and natural govern- ment of it , being such an incomprehensible scheme - so ...
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... important argument , showing that there was a point of time in the history of our planet ( which no other researches but those of geology can possibly approach ) , antecedent to the begin- ning of either animal or vegetable life . This ...
... important argument , showing that there was a point of time in the history of our planet ( which no other researches but those of geology can possibly approach ) , antecedent to the begin- ning of either animal or vegetable life . This ...
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... importance , his conduct in parliament would be directed by nothing but the con- stitutional duty of a peer . He ... important question called for his opinion in parliament , he would be heard , by the most profligate minister , with ...
... importance , his conduct in parliament would be directed by nothing but the con- stitutional duty of a peer . He ... important question called for his opinion in parliament , he would be heard , by the most profligate minister , with ...
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Página 65 - Seven years, My Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door, during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour.
Página 64 - My Lord, I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of The World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship.
Página 65 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation. My Lord, your lordship's most humble, most obedient servant,
Página 35 - The great secret of morals is love, or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own.
Página 52 - His integrity was most pure, his justice the most inflexible I have ever known, no motives of interest or consanguinity, of friendship or hatred, being able to bias his decision. He was, indeed, in every sense of the words, a wise, a good, and a great man.
Página 15 - All the pleasing illusions which made power gentle and obedience liberal, which harmonized the different shades of life, and which by a bland assimilation incorporated into politics the sentiments which beautify and soften private society, are to be dissolved by this new conquering empire of light and reason.
Página 14 - The thoughts which are occasionally called forth in the progress are such as could only be produced by an imagination in the highest degree fervid and active, to which materials were supplied by incessant study and unlimited curiosity. The heat of Milton's mind may be said to sublimate his learning, to throw off into his work the spirit of science, unmingled with its grosser parts.
Página 107 - I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin, that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
Página 21 - His prose is the model of the middle style; on grave subjects not formal, on light occasions not grovelling; pure without scrupulosity, and exact without apparent elaboration; always equable, and always easy, without glowing words or pointed sentences.
Página 65 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.