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... effect on the minds of many indi- viduals . The opinions of Wickliffe appear to have been embraced by a larger number of perfons than dared to avow them ; and the admirers of Chaucer could not avoid having their understandings and their ...
... effect on the minds of many indi- viduals . The opinions of Wickliffe appear to have been embraced by a larger number of perfons than dared to avow them ; and the admirers of Chaucer could not avoid having their understandings and their ...
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... effect . Upon the ftrength of it , fir William Sawtre , rector of St. Ofwyth , London , was brought to trial before the convocation of the province of Canterbury , at St. Paul's , and received fentence of condemnation . It was an honour ...
... effect . Upon the ftrength of it , fir William Sawtre , rector of St. Ofwyth , London , was brought to trial before the convocation of the province of Canterbury , at St. Paul's , and received fentence of condemnation . It was an honour ...
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... effect of allurement and terrour , though it pre- ferved his life , could not fecure to him the continuance of his exalted station . He was deprived of his fee , and was condemned to a retirement , perhaps to a prifon , in which he ...
... effect of allurement and terrour , though it pre- ferved his life , could not fecure to him the continuance of his exalted station . He was deprived of his fee , and was condemned to a retirement , perhaps to a prifon , in which he ...
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... effect which arofe from the otherwise vain study of alchemy . While the devotees of this falfe fcience were seeking for an universal remedy , and were endeavouring to tranfmute the bafer metals into filver and gold , they acquired a ...
... effect which arofe from the otherwise vain study of alchemy . While the devotees of this falfe fcience were seeking for an universal remedy , and were endeavouring to tranfmute the bafer metals into filver and gold , they acquired a ...
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... effect rather an union , than a friend- flip , between the contracting pow- ers . This treaty was believed to be unfinished rather in form than in fubftance ; and its delay was fup- pofed chiefly attributable to the flow and tedious ...
... effect rather an union , than a friend- flip , between the contracting pow- ers . This treaty was believed to be unfinished rather in form than in fubftance ; and its delay was fup- pofed chiefly attributable to the flow and tedious ...
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Page 234 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; * if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free, They touch our country, and their shackles, fall.
Page 133 - That in all cases where the duties on articles of the growth, produce, or manufacture of either country, are different on the importation into the other, it would be expedient, that they should be reduced in the kingdom where they are the highest, to the amount payable in the other...
Page 35 - Snceberg, are fwom enemies to the paftoral life. Some of their maxims are, to live on hunting and plunder, and never to keep any animal alive for the fpace of one night. By this means they render themfelves odious to the reft of mankind, and are purfued and exterminated like the wild beafts, whofe manners they have af> fumed. Others of them again are kept alive, and made flaves of. Their weapons are peiloned arrows, whkh, ihot out of a fmall bow, will...
Page 106 - In all the hues of heaven's bow And, swelling to embrace the light, Spreads around beneath the sight. Old castles on the cliffs arise, Proudly...
Page 183 - For in a discourse of our present civil war, what could seem more impertinent, than to ask, as one did, what was the value of a Roman penny? Yet the coherence to me was manifest enough. For the thought of the war, introduced the thought of the delivering up the king to his enemies, the thought of that brought in the thought of the delivering up of Christ, and that again the thought of the thirty pence which was the price of that treason; and thence easily followed that malicious question; and all...
Page 229 - Lo, as old authors ling, c the ftones 'gan pour/ Indeed an *Otaheite fhow'r ! The confequence was dreadful, let me tell ye ; One's eye was beat out of his head, This limp'd away, that lay for dead ; Here mourn'da broken back, and there a belly.
Page 233 - Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys...
Page 127 - What Preferences are now given to the Importation of any Article, the Growth, Produce, or Manufacture of Ireland, by any Duty or Prohibition on the Importation...
Page 188 - God forgiveness for an offence, which it had been his intention to repair by marrying her : that with...
Page 131 - Ireland, by laws to be passed by the parliament of that kingdom, for the same time, and in the same manner, as in Great Britain. V^ — That it is further essential to this settlement, that all goods and commodities of the growth, produce, or manufacture of British or foreign colonies in America or the West Indies, and the British or foreign settlements on the coast of Africa, imported into Ireland, should, on importation, be subject to the same duties and regulations...