The Anti-Jacobin Review and Protestant Advocate: Or, Monthly Political and Literary Censor, Volume 2Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster-Row, 1799 - Literature, Modern |
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... Causes and Confequences of English Wars . I ( Continued from P. 620 , VOL . I. ) F the following passage be not a contradiction in terms , we must confefs , the argument of it is too fubtle for our penetration . " It is a question for ...
... Causes and Confequences of English Wars . I ( Continued from P. 620 , VOL . I. ) F the following passage be not a contradiction in terms , we must confefs , the argument of it is too fubtle for our penetration . " It is a question for ...
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... cause truth to shine forth with all its own celeftial fplen- dour . " It has ftruck us as something extraordinary , that a writer of this caft and complexion should actually be more indulgent to , and speak better of , even the first ...
... cause truth to shine forth with all its own celeftial fplen- dour . " It has ftruck us as something extraordinary , that a writer of this caft and complexion should actually be more indulgent to , and speak better of , even the first ...
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... causes , its principles , and its confe- quences ; and still fewer have laboured so earnestly to explain to their countrymen the imminent dangers with which this de structive phenomenon threatened not only their repose , but their ...
... causes , its principles , and its confe- quences ; and still fewer have laboured so earnestly to explain to their countrymen the imminent dangers with which this de structive phenomenon threatened not only their repose , but their ...
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... cause of the French monarch is that of every monarch , nay of every individual , who is defirous of the pre- servation of order , and the protection of law ? Is there one who does not now fee , that a declaration in favour of the Gallic ...
... cause of the French monarch is that of every monarch , nay of every individual , who is defirous of the pre- servation of order , and the protection of law ? Is there one who does not now fee , that a declaration in favour of the Gallic ...
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... cause of this fpecies of apathy , but content ourfelves with deploring its effects , and imprecating its difcontinuance . We lament , exceedingly , that the limits neceffarily pre scribed to articles of criticifm , prevent us from ...
... cause of this fpecies of apathy , but content ourfelves with deploring its effects , and imprecating its difcontinuance . We lament , exceedingly , that the limits neceffarily pre scribed to articles of criticifm , prevent us from ...
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Page 69 - Length of days is in her right hand : and in her left hand riches and honour. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
Page 67 - Almighty Lord, who is a most strong tower to all them that put their trust in him, to whom all things in heaven, in earth, and under the earth, do bow and obey, be now and evermore thy defence; and make thee know and feel that there is none other Name under heaven given to man, in whom, and through whom, thou mayest receive health and salvation, but only the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 573 - No, sir, this is not the character of the virtue, and it soars higher for its object. It is an extended self-love, mingling with all the enjoyments of life, and twisting itself with the minutest filaments of the heart. It is thus we obey the laws of society, because they are the laws of Virtue. In their authority, we see, not the array of force and terror, but the venerable image of our country's honor.
Page 255 - The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn.
Page 573 - He is willing to risk his life in its defence, and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it. For, what rights of a citizen will be deemed inviolable when a state renounces the principles that constitute their security...
Page 573 - What is patriotism? Is it a narrow affection for the spot where a man was born? Are the very clods where we tread entitled to this ardent preference because they are greener? No, sir; this is not the character of the virtue, and it soars higher for its object. It is an extended self-love, mingling with all the enjoyments of life, and twisting itself with the minutest filaments of the heart. It is thus we obey the laws of society, because they are...
Page 143 - The sagacity of his numerous and fierce adversaries could not discover a blot on his character ; and in the midst of all the hard trials and galling provocations of a turbulent political life, he never once deserted his friends when they were unfortunate, nor insulted his enemies when they were weak.
Page 144 - He quotes them, as he tells us himself, as witnesses whose conspiring testimony, mightily strengthened and confirmed by their discordance on almost every other subject, is a conclusive proof of the unanimity of the whole human race on the great rules of duty and the fundamental principles of morals.
Page 82 - It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
Page 16 - ... a child is born a subject of no country or government." He is under his father's tuition and authority till he comes to age of discretion; and then he is a freeman, at liberty what government he will put himself under, what body politic he will unite himself to...