Lives of illustrious ... Irishmen, ed. by J. Wills, Volume 5,Parte 11843 |
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... real or apparent dictate of reason or duty , —a temper , of which one of the results was , a very unusual simplicity and singleness of character ; VOL . V. A another , a boldness equally remarkable , though we think LIVES ...
... real or apparent dictate of reason or duty , —a temper , of which one of the results was , a very unusual simplicity and singleness of character ; VOL . V. A another , a boldness equally remarkable , though we think LIVES ...
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... reasons which would be both unpopular and untrue . But , on the part of practical politicians , ( too generally men of a very inferior range of knowledge and views , ) no large or decided plan for the promotion of human wel- fare ...
... reasons which would be both unpopular and untrue . But , on the part of practical politicians , ( too generally men of a very inferior range of knowledge and views , ) no large or decided plan for the promotion of human wel- fare ...
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... reason was yet too little understood . Such contemporaries as Clarke , and such successors as David Hume , amply indicate the error of the age , and show that philosophy was yet in its cradle . Though he was singularly disposed by ...
... reason was yet too little understood . Such contemporaries as Clarke , and such successors as David Hume , amply indicate the error of the age , and show that philosophy was yet in its cradle . Though he was singularly disposed by ...
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... reasons : all that could be said for or against any opinion which it was his will , or which he considered it fit and right to maintain , and contest , seems to have been before him . But , far less sagacious in selecting than in ...
... reasons : all that could be said for or against any opinion which it was his will , or which he considered it fit and right to maintain , and contest , seems to have been before him . But , far less sagacious in selecting than in ...
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... reason from observa- tion alone , fell into some errors of method , which were in a measure incidental to such a ( then ) daring innovation ; justly estimating the im- portance of unambiguous language as an instrument of communication ...
... reason from observa- tion alone , fell into some errors of method , which were in a measure incidental to such a ( then ) daring innovation ; justly estimating the im- portance of unambiguous language as an instrument of communication ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
advance appears became Berkeley Berkeley's bill BORN A.D. Boyle British causes character christian circumstances civil Cloyne conduct consequence considerable constitution course degree Dublin duke Dungannon earl effect eminent endeavoured England English entered error existence fact fallacy favour feeling Flood friends genius Grattan Henry Flood honour house of commons human important impulse incidents influence intellectual interest Ireland Irish Irish privy council Irish volunteers John Hely Hutchinson king knowledge language letters lord Charlemont lord Townshend lordship Lucas Malebranche memoir ment mind moral nature notice numerous object observed obtained occasion opinion opposition Orrery parliament party passed peculiar perhaps period persons Phalaris philosophy political popular Poyning's law present principle privy council progress question reason remarkable resolution result sense sentiments society soon sophism spirit Steele talent temper things tion Toland took truth university of Dublin virtue volunteers whigs whole writings
Passagens conhecidas
Página 9 - In happy climes, where from the genial sun And virgin earth such scenes ensue, The force of Art by Nature seems outdone, And fancied beauties by the true : In happy climes, the seat of innocence...
Página 9 - In happy climes, the seat of innocence, Where nature guides and virtue rules, Where men shall not impose for truth and sense The pedantry of courts and schools : There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts.
Página 48 - New Experiments Physico-mechanical, touching the spring of the air, and its effects ; (made for the most part in a new pneumatical engine) written .... by the honourable Robert Boyle, Esq* experiment xxxvi.
Página 10 - Indian scholars and missionaries ; where he most exorbitantly proposes a whole hundred pounds a year for himself, forty pounds for a fellow, and ten for a student. His heart will break if his deanery be not taken from him, and left to your Excellency's disposal. I discouraged him, by the coldness of Courts and Ministers, who will interpret all this as impossible, and a vision, but nothing will do...
Página 14 - If you put this question to me," says Sir Robert, "as a minister, I must and can assure you, that the money shall most undoubtedly be paid as soon as suits with public convenience: but if you ask me as a friend, whether Dean Berkeley should continue in America, expecting the payment of 20,OOOZ., I advise him by all means to return home to Europe, and to give up his present expectations.
Página 240 - Ireland have been shed; yes, my good lord, I see you do not forget them; I see their sacred forms passing in sad review before your memory; I see your pained and softened fancy recalling those happy meetings...
Página 194 - Majesty that it is not by temporary expedients, but by a free trade alone, that this nation is now to be saved from impending ruin.
Página 95 - We have old Mr. Southern at a Gentleman's house a little way off, who often comes to see us ; he is now seventy-seven years old,* and has almost wholly lost his memory ; but is as agreeable as an old man can be, at least I persuade myself so when I look at him, and think of Isabella and Oroonoko.
Página 9 - There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts, Not such as Europe breeds in her decay, Such as she bred when fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Página 183 - Majesty to repress that daring spirit of disobedience, and to enforce a due submission to the laws; always considering that it is one of our most essential duties to maintain inviolate the supreme authority of the legislature of Great Britain over every part of the dominions of your Majesty's crown.