Moral & Political Truth: Or Reflections Suggested by Reading History and Biographyauthor, 1811 - 401 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 78
... suppose they fix'd the laws of fate ; Conducted comets through the boundless sky , And fix'd the suns , and caus'd the moons to fly ; With countless systems fill'd the vast expance , And bade the planets round their suns advance ; Link ...
... suppose they fix'd the laws of fate ; Conducted comets through the boundless sky , And fix'd the suns , and caus'd the moons to fly ; With countless systems fill'd the vast expance , And bade the planets round their suns advance ; Link ...
الصفحة 145
... serve him . When they suppose that they are suffi- ciently pumerous , their boldness increases ; they be- come more clamorous ; and begin to employ menaces , O persecutions , and violence . In this manner , fear ( 145 )
... serve him . When they suppose that they are suffi- ciently pumerous , their boldness increases ; they be- come more clamorous ; and begin to employ menaces , O persecutions , and violence . In this manner , fear ( 145 )
الصفحة 188
... suppose , if it were possible , that they both believed and disbelieved , at the same time for they think that dreams and magical predictions are true ; and must be fulfilled or verified ; and yet they endeavour to avoid the ...
... suppose , if it were possible , that they both believed and disbelieved , at the same time for they think that dreams and magical predictions are true ; and must be fulfilled or verified ; and yet they endeavour to avoid the ...
الصفحة 189
... suppose , that the reason of him , who could believe such fancies , is but one degree above the brutal instinct , or rather in- stinct than reason . As I have already mentioned oracles , the belief of which has so often evinced the ...
... suppose , that the reason of him , who could believe such fancies , is but one degree above the brutal instinct , or rather in- stinct than reason . As I have already mentioned oracles , the belief of which has so often evinced the ...
الصفحة 206
... suppose , that the dissolution or abrogation of government , can suddenly transform a humane people into savages ; and make them forget all their maxims of religion and morality . If it could not suddenly change the hearts and ...
... suppose , that the dissolution or abrogation of government , can suddenly transform a humane people into savages ; and make them forget all their maxims of religion and morality . If it could not suddenly change the hearts and ...
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الصفحة 3 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
الصفحة 311 - Cat/iolicce, and against Luther, who had just begun the Reformation in Germany, upon which the pope gave him the title of Defender of the Faith, a title still retained by the monarcbs of Great Britain: the bull conferring it bears date Oct.
الصفحة 194 - Turner called to the sheriff's men to bring Mr. Peters to see what was doing ; which being done, the executioner came to him, and rubbing his bloody hands together, asked him how he liked that work. He told him he was not at all terrified, and that he might do his worst, and when he was...
الصفحة 193 - King to the bar, it had been treason in them ; and as to the part he had in the action with which he was charged, he was so far from repenting what he had done, that he was most ready to seal it with his blood...
الصفحة 210 - On the twenty-eighth day of March he was conducted, amidst a vast concourse of the populace, to the Greve, the common place of execution, stripped naked, and fastened to the scaffold by iron gyves. One of his hands was then burnt in liquid flaming sulphur; his thighs, legs, and arms, were torn with...
الصفحة 273 - He applied the golden rule of " doing to others as he would that others should do unto him," which for the present put an end to the discussion.
الصفحة 245 - ... the Diversions of Purley," first published in octavo in 1786. The work was afterwards enlarged into two volumes quarto, but never completed. In the introduction, the author, with reference to his own political opinions, has humorously alluded to Purley having been once the seat of Bradshaw, President of the High Court of Justice at the trial of Charles I. Respecting the contents of this work, the critical " doctors " of the time did decidedly differ, and a tractable but weak-minded reader must...
الصفحة 193 - ... their detestation of such usage. At the place of execution, among other things, he declared that he had used the utmost of his endeavours that the practice of the law might be regulated, and that the...
الصفحة 188 - ... death, by refusing her sustenance, under pretence of its being prejudicial to her health. But he soon saw the futility of relying upon such vain prognostications ; for his soldiers, by their cruelty and rapine, having become insupportable to the inhabitants of Rome...