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... present yard , than about one - fifteenth of an inch , which is probably much less than our present yard- measures differ from one another , when derived from the fame ftandard . So far is this ftandard from poffeffing none of the ...
... present yard , than about one - fifteenth of an inch , which is probably much less than our present yard- measures differ from one another , when derived from the fame ftandard . So far is this ftandard from poffeffing none of the ...
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... present Queen's family governs , is under the fame wretched ftate of arbitrary power , and the people in flavifh vaffalage . ' We will finish our extracts with a few lines , which contain no bad advice in the prefent crifis of our ...
... present Queen's family governs , is under the fame wretched ftate of arbitrary power , and the people in flavifh vaffalage . ' We will finish our extracts with a few lines , which contain no bad advice in the prefent crifis of our ...
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... present and future identities , and the like , may be comprized in a narrow com- pafs . The following is the author's portrait of Europe in miniature . England , though it enjoys the high pre - eminence of thought , or mental powers ...
... present and future identities , and the like , may be comprized in a narrow com- pafs . The following is the author's portrait of Europe in miniature . England , though it enjoys the high pre - eminence of thought , or mental powers ...
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... present themselves to the attentive reader , though they are not here particularly specified . It is now time to difmifs this work . Comments , obferva- tions , or even occafional notes , are not to be found in it ; they were not ...
... present themselves to the attentive reader , though they are not here particularly specified . It is now time to difmifs this work . Comments , obferva- tions , or even occafional notes , are not to be found in it ; they were not ...
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... present article . The tranflator's preface begins with the following paffage : At a period like the prefent , when the fabric reared by the hands of tyranny and fuperftition is falling to pieces ; when men , more en- lightened , have ...
... present article . The tranflator's preface begins with the following paffage : At a period like the prefent , when the fabric reared by the hands of tyranny and fuperftition is falling to pieces ; when men , more en- lightened , have ...
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Side 83 - The fact is, that portions of antiquity, by proving everything, establish nothing. It is authority against authority all the way, till we come to the divine origin of the rights of man, at the creation.
Side 85 - With what ideas of justice or honour can that man enter a house of legislation, who absorbs in his own person the inheritance of a whole family of children, or doles out to them some pitiful portion with the insolence of a gift? Thirdly...
Side 82 - ... of mortal imagination can conceive. What possible obligation, then, can exist between them ; what rule or principle can be laid down that...
Side 89 - Ah!' said he, America is a fine free country: it is worth the people's fighting for. I know the difference by knowing my own: in my country, if the prince says, "Eat straw
Side 82 - Every generation is and must be competent to all the purposes which its occasions require. It is the living and not the dead that are to be accommodated.
Side 83 - Those who lived a hundred or a thousand years ago were then moderns, as we are now. They had their ancients, and those ancients had others, and we also shall be ancients in our turn.
Side 83 - They had their ancients, and those ancients had others, and we also shall be ancients in our turn. If the mere name of antiquity is to govern in the affairs of life, the people who are to live...
Side 87 - Parliament, or anything else, that obtrudest thine insignificance between the soul of man and its maker? Mind thine own concerns. If he believes not as thou believest, it is a proof that thou believest not as he believeth, and there is no earthly power can determine between you.
Side 82 - When man ceases to be, his power and his wants cease with him; and having no longer any participation in the concerns of this world, he has no longer any authority in directing who shall be its governors, or how its government shall be organized, or how administered.
Side 86 - Toleration, therefore, places itself, not between man and man, nor between church and church, nor between one denomination of religion and another, but between God and man; between the being who worships, and the being who is worshipped; and by the same act of assumed authority by which it tolerates man to pay his worship, it presumptuously and blasphemously sets itself up to tolerate the Almighty to receive it.