The Historical, biographical, literary, and scientific magazine, conducted by R. Bisset with the assistance of other literary gentlemen, Volume 2Robert Bisset 1800 |
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... give him credit for his virtue . Here we may be told , that Cyrus , or Alexander , or Cæsar , would have done the same , in similar circumstances . Thef is a position which we will very readily adinit . But our question , as Britons ...
... give him credit for his virtue . Here we may be told , that Cyrus , or Alexander , or Cæsar , would have done the same , in similar circumstances . Thef is a position which we will very readily adinit . But our question , as Britons ...
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... give the necessary orders that he may be enabled to deliver it directly into your own hands . This step in itself announces the importance of its object . ' Accept , my Lord , the assurance of my highest consideration , CH . MAU ...
... give the necessary orders that he may be enabled to deliver it directly into your own hands . This step in itself announces the importance of its object . ' Accept , my Lord , the assurance of my highest consideration , CH . MAU ...
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... give to all the other nations of Europe , in tranquillity and peace , that security which they are now compelled to seek by other means . ' But , desirable as such an event must be both to France and to the world , it is not to this ...
... give to all the other nations of Europe , in tranquillity and peace , that security which they are now compelled to seek by other means . ' But , desirable as such an event must be both to France and to the world , it is not to this ...
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... give the passports which may be ne- cessary for this purpose . ( Signed ) CH . MAU . TALLEYRAND . " ' TO THE MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS , & c . AT PARIS . SIR , Downing - street , Jan. 20 , 1800 , ' I have the honour to inclose to you ...
... give the passports which may be ne- cessary for this purpose . ( Signed ) CH . MAU . TALLEYRAND . " ' TO THE MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS , & c . AT PARIS . SIR , Downing - street , Jan. 20 , 1800 , ' I have the honour to inclose to you ...
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... give them effect ; that therefore nego- ciation with them is at present inadmissible . The Duke of Eedford undertook to answer the Noble Secretary . One of his principal arguments was , that the principles and conduct of the French were ...
... give them effect ; that therefore nego- ciation with them is at present inadmissible . The Duke of Eedford undertook to answer the Noble Secretary . One of his principal arguments was , that the principles and conduct of the French were ...
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Página 146 - There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny: the three-hooped pot; shall have ten hoops and I will make it felony to drink small beer...
Página 143 - Society requires not only that the passions of individuals should be subjected, but that even in the mass and body, as well as in the individuals, the inclinations of men should frequently be thwarted, their will controlled, and their passions brought into subjection.
Página 286 - I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation ; nor the musician's which is fantastical ; nor the courtier's, which is proud ; nor the soldier's, which is ambitious ; nor the lawyer's, which is politic ; nor the lady's, which is nice ; nor the lover's, which is all these : but it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and, indeed, the sundry contemplation of my travels, in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness.
Página 143 - Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.
Página 150 - Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar-school : and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used ; and, contrary to the king, his crown, and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill.
Página 240 - The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap, And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn...
Página 6 - The same system to the prevalence of which France justly ascribes all her present miseries, is that which has also involved the rest of Europe in a long and destructive warfare, of a nature long since unknown to the practice of civilized nations.
Página 10 - Majesty, if a sort of invitation were held out in favour of that Republican Government of which England adopted the forms in the middle of the last century, or an exhortation to recall to the throne that family whom their birth had placed there, and whom a revolution compelled to descend .from it.
Página 38 - Ay, i' the name of mischief, let him be the messenger. — For my part I wouldn't lend a hand to it for the best horse in your stable. By the mass ! it don't look like another letter ! It is, as I may say, a designing and malicious-looking letter ; and I warrant smells of gunpowder like a soldier's pouch ! — Oons ! I wouldn't swear it mayn't go off ! Acres. Out, you poltroon ! you han't the valour of a grasshopper. Dav. Well, I say no more — 'twill be sad news, to be sure, at Clod Hall ! but...
Página 143 - Every sort of legislative, judicial, or executory power are its creatures. They can have no being in any other state of things ; and how can any man claim, under the conventions of civil society, rights which do not so much as suppose its existence...