The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer, Volume 44R. Baldwin, 1775 |
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... fhould be forfaken , and even wounded , by its profeffed votaries ? Or , that the common principle of liberty fhould not fo much as be understood by the most en- lightened , in what is boafted to be the moft luminous of all ages ? But ...
... fhould be forfaken , and even wounded , by its profeffed votaries ? Or , that the common principle of liberty fhould not fo much as be understood by the most en- lightened , in what is boafted to be the moft luminous of all ages ? But ...
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... fhould be against its being committed . He Mr. Fuller feconded him . Mr. Lafeclles fpcke much in favour of the bill , and rested his arguments on its being better to have two that you were lefs liable to be impofed upon where there were ...
... fhould be against its being committed . He Mr. Fuller feconded him . Mr. Lafeclles fpcke much in favour of the bill , and rested his arguments on its being better to have two that you were lefs liable to be impofed upon where there were ...
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... fhould give them money to put on lighter . After he withdrew , Mr. Dempfter moved , that the Houfe fhould return thanks to Mr. Howard , for the great zeal he had fhewn in endeavouring to find out the abuses that were committed in gaols ...
... fhould give them money to put on lighter . After he withdrew , Mr. Dempfter moved , that the Houfe fhould return thanks to Mr. Howard , for the great zeal he had fhewn in endeavouring to find out the abuses that were committed in gaols ...
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... fhould wish to fend it down to the country , for every juftice to fee and give his opinion upon : he complained against the bill in its prefent form , and moved that the fecond reading be on the 20th of April . Mr. Ongley fpoke nearly ...
... fhould wish to fend it down to the country , for every juftice to fee and give his opinion upon : he complained against the bill in its prefent form , and moved that the fecond reading be on the 20th of April . Mr. Ongley fpoke nearly ...
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... fhould refide in the whole body of the people , or their re- prefentatives . " - " The political liberty of the fubject is a tranquillity of mind , arifing from the opinion each perfon has of his fafety . In order to have this liberty ...
... fhould refide in the whole body of the people , or their re- prefentatives . " - " The political liberty of the fubject is a tranquillity of mind , arifing from the opinion each perfon has of his fafety . In order to have this liberty ...
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Page 339 - Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know...
Page 131 - I may have leave to lament. For a wise man, he seemed to me at that time to be governed too much by general maxims.
Page 64 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Page 67 - I remember, Sir, with a melancholy pleasure, the situation of the honourable gentleman who made the motion for the repeal ; in that crisis, when the whole trading interest of this empire, crammed into your lobbies, with a trembling and anxious expectation, waited, almost to a winter's return of light, their fate from your resolutions. When at length you had determined in their...
Page 230 - ... plunged into the water, swimming underneath like an otter, only rising to take breath, till he reached the opposite shore. He now ascended the steep bank, but though he had good reason to be in a hurry, as many of the enemy were in the water, and others running...
Page 339 - When I contemplate these things; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that, through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection...
Page 338 - Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
Page 64 - I mean into the business of office ; and the limited and fixed methods and forms established there. Much knowledge is to be had undoubtedly in that line ; and there is no knowledge which is not valuable. But it may be truly said, that men too much conversant in office are rarely minds of remarkable enlargement.
Page 338 - England, the genius should point out to him a little speck, scarce visible in the mass of the national interest, a small seminal principle, rather than a formed body, and should tell him, — ' Young man, there is America — which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth...
Page 420 - But did not chance at length her error mend ? Did no subverted empire mark his end ? Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound ? Or hostile millions press him to the ground ? His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.