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... Dodd . I know not how you think on that subject ; though the newspapers give us a say- ing of yours in favour of mercy to him . But I own I am very desirous that the royal prerogative of remission of punishment , should be employed to ...
... Dodd . I know not how you think on that subject ; though the newspapers give us a say- ing of yours in favour of mercy to him . But I own I am very desirous that the royal prerogative of remission of punishment , should be employed to ...
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... Dodd was put to death yesterday , in opposition to the recommendation of the jury , —the petition of the city of London , -and a subsequent petition signed by three - and - twenty thousand hands . Surely the voice of the public , when ...
... Dodd was put to death yesterday , in opposition to the recommendation of the jury , —the petition of the city of London , -and a subsequent petition signed by three - and - twenty thousand hands . Surely the voice of the public , when ...
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... Dodd ; but he believed those whom he wished to be right , as it is thought , till within three days of his end . He died with pious composure and resolution . I have just seen the Ordinary that attended him . His address to his fellow ...
... Dodd ; but he believed those whom he wished to be right , as it is thought , till within three days of his end . He died with pious composure and resolution . I have just seen the Ordinary that attended him . His address to his fellow ...
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... Dodd made a dismal impression upon my mind . " I had sagacity enough to divine that you wrote his speech to the Recorder , before sentence was pronounced . I am glad you have written so much for him ; and I hope to be favoured with an ...
... Dodd made a dismal impression upon my mind . " I had sagacity enough to divine that you wrote his speech to the Recorder , before sentence was pronounced . I am glad you have written so much for him ; and I hope to be favoured with an ...
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... Dodd , you shall know more fully when we meet . " Of law - suits there is no end ; poor Sir Allan must have another trial , for which , however , his antagonist cannot be much blamed , having two judges on his side . I am more afraid of ...
... Dodd , you shall know more fully when we meet . " Of law - suits there is no end ; poor Sir Allan must have another trial , for which , however , his antagonist cannot be much blamed , having two judges on his side . I am more afraid of ...
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Página 366 - To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Página 96 - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Página 370 - Why, sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Página 112 - I once wrote for a magazine : I made a calculation, that if I should write but a page a day, at the same rate, I should, in ten years, write nine volumes in folio, of an ordinary size and print.
Página 352 - Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is Strange, yet nothing new: Endless labour all along, Endless labour to be wrong; Phrase that Time has flung away; Uncouth words in disarray, Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet, Ode, and elegy, and sonnet.
Página 128 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Página 27 - Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go And view the ocean leaning on the sky : From thence our rolling neighbours we shall know And on the lunar world securely pry.
Página 204 - I sell here, Sir, what all the " world desires to have, — POWER' He had about seven
Página 24 - Florus or Eutropius; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it as entertaining as a Persian tale.
Página 300 - ALMIGHTY God, who alone canst order the unruly wills and affections of sinful men ; Grant unto thy people, that they may love the thing which thou commandest, and desire that which thou dost promise ; that so, among the sundry and manifold changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed, where true joys are to be found ; through Jesus Christ our Lord.