The Pamphleteer, Volume 25A.J. Valpy, 1825 - Great Britain |
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... tion which should become the instrument of so noble a work , to the gratitude of posterity . It is greater to conciliate than to subdue ; most dignified to con- cede , in the day of our prosperity and our power : they only are humbled ...
... tion which should become the instrument of so noble a work , to the gratitude of posterity . It is greater to conciliate than to subdue ; most dignified to con- cede , in the day of our prosperity and our power : they only are humbled ...
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... tion of both countries to this great and vital object : the hope may yet be entertained that a liberal and enlightened policy would be crowned with complete success : every thing on the other hand clearly demonstrates that Ireland ...
... tion of both countries to this great and vital object : the hope may yet be entertained that a liberal and enlightened policy would be crowned with complete success : every thing on the other hand clearly demonstrates that Ireland ...
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... tion of it , which , being founded on self - interest , is the only part which requires particular notice . I allow the advantages she de- rives from her commercial intercourse with us to their utmost ex- tent , as well as that her true ...
... tion of it , which , being founded on self - interest , is the only part which requires particular notice . I allow the advantages she de- rives from her commercial intercourse with us to their utmost ex- tent , as well as that her true ...
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... tion . Here is the only unguarded point in our system ; and though danger , from this side , be a remote apprehension , still , having al- ready achieved so much for our Asiatic security , I would not have one approach left unprotected ...
... tion . Here is the only unguarded point in our system ; and though danger , from this side , be a remote apprehension , still , having al- ready achieved so much for our Asiatic security , I would not have one approach left unprotected ...
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... tion in saying that there is a key which will unlock the most invete rate prejudices of this people , and which , applied with judgment , would open to us manifold benefits . Besides , where one point has been ceded , it is neither ...
... tion in saying that there is a key which will unlock the most invete rate prejudices of this people , and which , applied with judgment , would open to us manifold benefits . Besides , where one point has been ceded , it is neither ...
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Page 18 - While secret laughter tittered round the place; The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love, The matron's glance that would those looks reprove, — These were thy charms, sweet village! sports like these, With sweet succession, taught e'en toil to please; These, round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed, These were thy charms, — but all these charms are fled!
Page 58 - There wanted yet the master work, the end Of all yet done ; a creature who, not prone And brute as other creatures, but endued With sanctity of reason, might erect His stature, and upright with front serene Govern the rest, self-knowing, and from thence 510 Magnanimous to correspond with Heaven...
Page 18 - The dancing pair that simply sought renown, By holding out to tire each other down...
Page 18 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...
Page 14 - But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think that miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say...
Page 18 - It is good also not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation.
Page 11 - No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of his Father and his God.
Page 16 - What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, Prove false again? Two hundred more.
Page 6 - I do not understand the doctrine of Luther, or Calvin, or Melancthon ; nor the confession of Augusta, or Geneva, nor the catechism of Heidelberg, nor the articles of the church of England, no nor the harmony of protestant confessions ; but that wherein they all agree, and which they all subscribe with a greater harmony, as a perfect rule of their faith and actions, that is, the Bible. The Bible, I say, the Bible only is the religion of protestants.
Page 9 - Say not thou. What is the cause that the former days were better than these ? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this.