Moral & Political Truth: Or Reflections Suggested by Reading History and Biographyauthor, 1811 - 401 من الصفحات |
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... vicious kings , Perhaps their riches brib'd the venal strings . Has their corruption caus'd the tuneful lyre , To make such notes as truth could not inspire ? Is that the cause ? then muses change your strings : Let freemen sing who ...
... vicious kings , Perhaps their riches brib'd the venal strings . Has their corruption caus'd the tuneful lyre , To make such notes as truth could not inspire ? Is that the cause ? then muses change your strings : Let freemen sing who ...
الصفحة 34
... that justice would have hung : How , snatch'd from justice by some prince or king , The vicious triumph , while the righteous swing . On lofty gibbets , rais'd to tutor slaves , To bow with awe to stupid , princely knaves ; ( 34 )
... that justice would have hung : How , snatch'd from justice by some prince or king , The vicious triumph , while the righteous swing . On lofty gibbets , rais'd to tutor slaves , To bow with awe to stupid , princely knaves ; ( 34 )
الصفحة 46
... vicious king . With varied shapes , to cheat the watchful eye , These base informers round each circle fly : Eat at the table of their destin'd prey , And bear some rash or alter'd phrase away ; Poison the solace of the fire - side ...
... vicious king . With varied shapes , to cheat the watchful eye , These base informers round each circle fly : Eat at the table of their destin'd prey , And bear some rash or alter'd phrase away ; Poison the solace of the fire - side ...
الصفحة 56
... vicious each succeeding year . Would any one invest a man with power , To cut his throat , the next or present hour ? Would man , for money , want a bond or note ; And ask no surety ( 55 ) to protect his throat ? No mind , if sound ...
... vicious each succeeding year . Would any one invest a man with power , To cut his throat , the next or present hour ? Would man , for money , want a bond or note ; And ask no surety ( 55 ) to protect his throat ? No mind , if sound ...
الصفحة 58
... vicious humours flow ; And therefore , children like their parents grow . ` A second cause , to aid the cause above , May spring from hatred , or may rise from love . The strong impressions , on the mother's mind , With fancy's busy ...
... vicious humours flow ; And therefore , children like their parents grow . ` A second cause , to aid the cause above , May spring from hatred , or may rise from love . The strong impressions , on the mother's mind , With fancy's busy ...
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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...