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... spirit and vivacity , was written the latter end of the same year , but was laid aside when the question assumed a more serious aspect , from the commencement of an actual negotiation , which gave rise to the series of printed letters ...
... spirit and vivacity , was written the latter end of the same year , but was laid aside when the question assumed a more serious aspect , from the commencement of an actual negotiation , which gave rise to the series of printed letters ...
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... spirit of the whole body . Never was it known that an aristocracy , which was haughty and tyrannical in one century , became easy and mild in the next . In effect , the yoke of this spe- cies of government is so galling , that whenever ...
... spirit of the whole body . Never was it known that an aristocracy , which was haughty and tyrannical in one century , became easy and mild in the next . In effect , the yoke of this spe- cies of government is so galling , that whenever ...
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... , and all they treated with various circumstances of the most shameful ingratitude . Republics have many things in the spirit of absolute monarchy , but none more than this . A shining merit is ever 38 A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY .
... , and all they treated with various circumstances of the most shameful ingratitude . Republics have many things in the spirit of absolute monarchy , but none more than this . A shining merit is ever 38 A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY .
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... . The people , * Sciant quibus moris cipibus magnos viros , & c . illicita mirari , posse etiam sub malis prin- See 42 , to the end of it . forgetful of all virtue and public spirit , and intoxi- 40 A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY .
... . The people , * Sciant quibus moris cipibus magnos viros , & c . illicita mirari , posse etiam sub malis prin- See 42 , to the end of it . forgetful of all virtue and public spirit , and intoxi- 40 A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY .
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Edmund Burke. forgetful of all virtue and public spirit , and intoxi- cated with the flatteries of their orators ( these court- iers of republics , and endowed with the distinguishing characteristics of all other courtiers ) , this ...
Edmund Burke. forgetful of all virtue and public spirit , and intoxi- cated with the flatteries of their orators ( these court- iers of republics , and endowed with the distinguishing characteristics of all other courtiers ) , this ...
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Page 137 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, Which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; The hair of my flesh stood up.
Page 133 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb...
Page 135 - Their dread commander : he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appeared Less than arch-angel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Page 203 - Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Page 135 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 110 - Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling.
Page 526 - When bad men combine, the good must associate ; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Page 141 - Will he make many supplications unto thee? Will he speak soft words unto thee? Will he make a covenant with thee? Wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?
Page 111 - But as pain is stronger in its operation than pleasure, so death is in general a much more affecting idea than pain; because there are very few pains, however exquisite, which are not preferred to death: nay, what generally makes pain itself, if I may say so, more painful, is, that it is considered as an emissary of this king of terrors.
Page 155 - Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.