The Examiner [and political tractsJ. Johnson, 1801 |
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Side 9
... leave our children , I appeal to any man , what sort of figure we should have been able to make these twenty years past . Besides , neither our enemies , nor allies , are upon the same foot with us in this particular . France and ...
... leave our children , I appeal to any man , what sort of figure we should have been able to make these twenty years past . Besides , neither our enemies , nor allies , are upon the same foot with us in this particular . France and ...
Side 23
... leave to resign , but the Pretender is at bottom ; the queen cannot dissolve a parliament , but it is a plot to dethrone herself and bring in the Pre- tender ; half a score stock - jobbers are playing the knave in Exchange - alley , and ...
... leave to resign , but the Pretender is at bottom ; the queen cannot dissolve a parliament , but it is a plot to dethrone herself and bring in the Pre- tender ; half a score stock - jobbers are playing the knave in Exchange - alley , and ...
Side 35
... leave the matter to those little antagonists who may want a topick for criticism . Thus much I have discovered , that it is in writing , as in building ; where , after all our schemes and calculations , we are mightily deceived in our ...
... leave the matter to those little antagonists who may want a topick for criticism . Thus much I have discovered , that it is in writing , as in building ; where , after all our schemes and calculations , we are mightily deceived in our ...
Side 44
... leave it to the partiality of either party , but to the infallible judgment of my printer . One principal end I designed by it , was , to undeceive those well- meaning people , who have been drawn unawares into a wrong sense of things ...
... leave it to the partiality of either party , but to the infallible judgment of my printer . One principal end I designed by it , was , to undeceive those well- meaning people , who have been drawn unawares into a wrong sense of things ...
Side 46
... leaving the care of informing posterity to better pens , I shall , with due regard to truth , dis- cretion , and the safety of my person from the men of the new - fangled moderation , continue to take all proper opportunities of letting ...
... leaving the care of informing posterity to better pens , I shall , with due regard to truth , dis- cretion , and the safety of my person from the men of the new - fangled moderation , continue to take all proper opportunities of letting ...
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Side 410 - An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject...
Side 168 - The two houses of parliament, in an address to the queen, declared their belief, that Mr. Harley's fidelity to her majesty, and zeal for her service, had drawn upon him the hatred of all the abettors of popery and faction*.
Side 72 - Faith to be agreed upon as aforesaid; and such who profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ His eternal Son, the true God, and in the Holy Spirit, God co-equal with the Father and the Son, one God blessed for ever, and do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be the revealed Will and Word of God...
Side 63 - And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
Side 13 - ... a reasonable honest man, of either side, upon those opinions in religion and government, which both parties daily buffet each other about, he shall hardly find one material point in difference between them.
Side 29 - I have therefore since thought of another expedient, frequently practised with great safety and success by satirical writers; which is, that of looking into history for some character bearing a resemblance to the person we would describe; and, with the absolute power of altering, adding, or suppressing what circumstances we please, I conceive we must have very bad luck, or very little skill, to fail.
Side 3 - But although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation, by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
Side 107 - Socinian : he has never conversed with T[o]l[a]nd, to open and enlarge his thoughts, and dispel the prejudices of education ; nor was he ever able to arrive at that perfection of gallantry, to ruin and imprison the husband, in order to keep the wife without disturbance.1 The present l[or]d st[ewa]rd...
Side 315 - ... been unjustly taken from them; to revenge some injury they have received, which all political casuists allow; to assist some ally in a just quarrel; or, lastly, to defend themselves when they are invaded.
Side 356 - With these measures fell in all that set of people, who are called the monied men ; such as had raised vast sums by trading with stocks and funds, and lending upon great interest and premiums ; whose perpetual harvest is war, and whose beneficial way of traffic must very much decline by a peace.