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... fact the capital of the island ; the works were to inclose this , and to sur- round a space capable of holding all the inhabitants , who were about 8000 in number , with their houses and burial - places . It is mournful to see how soon ...
... fact the capital of the island ; the works were to inclose this , and to sur- round a space capable of holding all the inhabitants , who were about 8000 in number , with their houses and burial - places . It is mournful to see how soon ...
Side 23
... fact occasioned the late high winds and tremendous thunder in the Tonga Island ; the gods , it seems , being stormy debaters . They had determined at last to save his life , because his death would be a greater evil to his people than ...
... fact occasioned the late high winds and tremendous thunder in the Tonga Island ; the gods , it seems , being stormy debaters . They had determined at last to save his life , because his death would be a greater evil to his people than ...
Side 37
... fact which bears forcibly against the hypothesis that Polynesia has been originally peopled from America , as Zuniga attempts to shew . He argues that these islands must have received their first inhabitants from the east , be- cause in ...
... fact which bears forcibly against the hypothesis that Polynesia has been originally peopled from America , as Zuniga attempts to shew . He argues that these islands must have received their first inhabitants from the east , be- cause in ...
Side 40
... fact , although Mr. Stewart is endowed in a remarkable degree with some of the qualities which are es- sential to the character of a fine writer , yet compared with any of the great names in philosophy , we cannot bring ourselves to ...
... fact , although Mr. Stewart is endowed in a remarkable degree with some of the qualities which are es- sential to the character of a fine writer , yet compared with any of the great names in philosophy , we cannot bring ourselves to ...
Side 41
... fact is , it is too dignified ; too reserved and sustained . Moreover , our author's periods , though judiciously constructed for the most part , are far too slow and measured , and not unfrequently far too rhythmical ; this last we ...
... fact is , it is too dignified ; too reserved and sustained . Moreover , our author's periods , though judiciously constructed for the most part , are far too slow and measured , and not unfrequently far too rhythmical ; this last we ...
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Side 355 - John. It is the curse of kings, to be attended By slaves, that take their humours for a warrant To break within the bloody house of life ; And, on the winking of authority, To understand a law ; to know the meaning Of dangerous majesty, when, perchance, it frowns More upon humour, than advis'd respect.
Side 371 - Population invariably increases where the means of subsistence increase, unless prevented by some very powerful and obvious checks. 3. These checks, and the checks which repress the superior power of population, and keep its effects on a level with the means of subsistence, are all resolvable into moral restraint, vice, and misery.
Side 302 - I never addressed myself in the language of decency and friendship to a woman, whether civilized or savage, without receiving a decent and friendly answer. With man it has often been otherwise.
Side 145 - He appears also to have experienced some vile treatment from his intimate friends ; as he is induced to protest that he ' cannot help exclaiming against the gross and villainous trick which some people have when they wish to get rid of their company, of letting their fires go down and their candles run to seed.'* That he has sufficient reasons therefore for directing his talents to the amelioration of manners, there can be no doubt : — the next point of importance is to ascertain the particular...
Side 302 - Men, to perform a generous action : in so free and kind a manner did they contribute to my relief, that if I was dry, I drank the sweetest draught ; and if hungry, I ate the coarsest morsel with a double relish.
Side 444 - God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness : because that which may be known of God is manifest in them ; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead : so that they are without excuse.
Side 364 - He professes to have read some of the speculations on the future improvement of society in a temper very different from a wish to find them visionary, but he has not acquired that command over his understanding which would enable him to believe what he wishes, without evidence, or to refuse his assent to what might be unpleasing, when accompanied with evidence.
Side 365 - ... the human species would increase as the numbers, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256; and subsistence as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. In two centuries the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 to 9; in three centuries as 4096 to 13, and in two thousand years the difference would be almost incalculable.
Side 302 - ... plains of inhospitable Denmark, through honest Sweden, frozen Lapland, rude and churlish Finland, unprincipled Russia, and the wide-spread regions of the wandering Tartar, if hungry, dry, cold, wet, or sick, woman has ever been friendly to me, and uniformly so ; and to add to this virtue, so worthy of the appellation of benevolence, these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that if I was dry I drank the sweet draught, and if hungry ate the coarse morsel, with a double...
Side 369 - ... to be found in the Essay, nor legitimately to be inferred from any part of it, it has been continually repeated in various quarters for fourteen years, and now appears in the pages of Mr. Grahame. For the last time I will now notice it; and should it still continue to be brought forward, I think I may be fairly excused from paying the slightest further attention either to the imputation itself, or to those who advance it. 'If I had merely stated that the tendency of the human race to increase...