 Those who wrote the Address, though they have shown no great extent or profundity of mind, are yet probably wiser than to believe it: but they have been taught by some master of mischief, how to put in motion the engine of political electricity; to attract...  Works - Page 177by Samuel Johnson - 1811Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pages
...mind, are yet probably wifer than to believe it : but they have been taught by fome mafter of mifchief, how to put in motion the engine of political electricity; to attract by the founds of Liberty and Property, to repel by thofe of Popery and Slavery; and to give the great ftroke... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 pages
...a rabble passively combustible. Those who wrote the Address, though they have shewn no great extent or profundity of mind, are yet probably wiser than...decrees of the general legislature with defiance thus audacious, and malignity thus acrimonious, nothing remains but to conquer or to yield ; to allow their... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - 1810 - 414 pages
...England in the year 1774. He says, " Those who wrote the address, though they have shown no great extent or profundity of mind, are yet probably wiser than...popery and slavery, and to give the great stroke by tne name of Boston." The principal and apparent idea here is con. taincd in a metaphor, which designates... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 pages
...a rabble passively combustible. Those who wrote the Address, though they have shown no great extent or profundity of mind, are yet probably wiser than...they have been taught by some master of mischief, chief, how to put in motion the engine of political electricity ; to attract by the sounds of Liberty... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 424 pages
...combustible. Those who wrote the Address, though they have shown no great extent or profundity ©f mind, are yet probably wiser than to believe it: but they have been taught by some master .of mis*. chief, chief, how to put in motion the engine of political electricity ; to attract by the sounds... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...combustible. Those who wrote the address, though they have shewn no great ex tent or profundity of mindj are yet probably wiser than to believe it : but they...decrees of the general legislature with defiance thus audacious, and malignity thus acrimonious, nothing remains but to conquer or to yield ; to allow their... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 432 pages
...a rabble passively combustible. Those who wrote the Address, though they have shewn no great extent or profundity of mind, are yet probably wiser than...decrees of the general legislature with defiance thus audacious, and malignity thus acrimonious, nothing remains but to conquer or to yield ; to allow their... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 398 pages
...a rabble passively combustible. Those who wrote the Address, though they have shown no great extent or profundity of mind, are yet probably wiser than...decrees of the general legislature with defiance thus audacious, and malignity thus acrimonious, nothing remains but to conquer or to yield ; to allow their... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 424 pages
...a rabble passively combustible. Those who wrote the address, though they have shewn no great extent or profundity of mind, are yet probably wiser than...decrees of the general legislature with defiance thus audacious, and malignity thus acrimonious, nothing remains but to conquer or to yield ; to allow their... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 444 pages
...shown no great extent or profundity of mind, are yet probsfbly wiser than to believe it : but they haw been taught by some master of mischief, how to put...decrees of the general legislature with defiance thus audacious, and malignity thus acrimonious, nothing remains but to conquer or to yield; to allow their... | |
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