Letters Concerning the English NationL. Davis and C. Reymers; R. Baldwin, and S. Crowder and Company, 1760 - 255 sider |
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... liberty , he gives thy mind fuch ideas as thy affections may deferve ; if thou liveft in God , thou actest , thou thinkest in God . After this thou needeft only but open thine eyes to that light which enlightens all mankind , and ' tis ...
... liberty , he gives thy mind fuch ideas as thy affections may deferve ; if thou liveft in God , thou actest , thou thinkest in God . After this thou needeft only but open thine eyes to that light which enlightens all mankind , and ' tis ...
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... liberty , he ran up and down the country with a dozen profelytes at his heels , ftill declaiming against the clergy , and was whip'd from time to time . Being one day fet in the pillory , he harangued the crowd in fo strong and moving a ...
... liberty , he ran up and down the country with a dozen profelytes at his heels , ftill declaiming against the clergy , and was whip'd from time to time . Being one day fet in the pillory , he harangued the crowd in fo strong and moving a ...
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... liberty of confcience is al- low'd , the establish'd religion will at last fwallow up all the all the reft . Quakers are dif- qualified from being members of parlia- ment ; nor can they enjoy any poft or pre- ferment , because an oath ...
... liberty of confcience is al- low'd , the establish'd religion will at last fwallow up all the all the reft . Quakers are dif- qualified from being members of parlia- ment ; nor can they enjoy any poft or pre- ferment , because an oath ...
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... liberty is natural , may go to heaven his own way . NEVERTHELESs , tho ' every one is per- mitted to ferve God in whatever mode or fashion he thinks proper , yet their true re- ligion , that in which a man makes his for- tune , is ...
... liberty is natural , may go to heaven his own way . NEVERTHELESs , tho ' every one is per- mitted to ferve God in whatever mode or fashion he thinks proper , yet their true re- ligion , that in which a man makes his for- tune , is ...
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... liberty to meet , to dif- pute on ecclefiaftical matters , to sentence impious books from time to time to the flames , that is , books written against them- felves . The miniftry , which is now com- pos'd of Whigs , does not so much as ...
... liberty to meet , to dif- pute on ecclefiaftical matters , to sentence impious books from time to time to the flames , that is , books written against them- felves . The miniftry , which is now com- pos'd of Whigs , does not so much as ...
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Side 171 - And screen'd in shades from day's detested glare, She sighs for ever on her pensive bed, Pain at her, side, and Megrim at her head.
Side 139 - Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Side 149 - He spoke of his works as of trifles that were beneath him ; and hinted to me, in our first conversation, that I should visit him upon no other foot than that of a gentleman, who led a life of plainness and simplicity.
Side 170 - For, that sad moment, when the sylphs withdrew, And Ariel weeping from Belinda flew, Umbriel, a dusky, melancholy sprite, As ever sullied the fair face of light, Down to the central earth, his proper scene, Repair'd to search the gloomy cave of Spleen.
Side 18 - ... is both to God and man : If after all these warnings and advertisements, thou dost not turn unto the Lord with all thy heart, but forget him, who remembered thee in thy distress, and give up thyself to follow lust and vanity; surely great will be thy condemnation.
Side 136 - No Traveller returns) puzzles the Will ; And makes us rather bear thofe Ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of. Thus...
Side 148 - He was infirm and come to the verge of life when I knew him. Mr. Congreve had one defect, which was his entertaining too mean an idea of his first profession (that of a writer), though it was to this he owed his fame and fortune.
Side 18 - Against which snare as well as the temptation of those that may or do feed thee, and prompt thee to evil, the most excellent and prevalent remedy will be, to apply thyself to that Light of Christ, which shineth in thy...
Side 135 - To be, or not to be : that is the queftion— — — Whether 'tis nobler in the mind, to fuffer The flings and arrows of outragious fortune j Or to take arms againft a fea of troubles, * And by oppofing end them.
Side 171 - She sighs for ever on her pensive bed, Pain at her side, and Megrim at her head. Two handmaids wait the throne: alike in place, But differing far in figure and in face.