Biographical, Literary, and Political Anecdotes of Several of the Most Eminent Persons of the Present Age. Never Before Printed: With an Appendix Consisting of Original, Explanatory, and Scarce Papers, Volume 1 |
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... fome degree , against the interests of the community . Innumerable are the modes in which hypocrify may de- ceive , tyranny opprefs , corruption debauch , or negligence fquander ; any one of which crimes , unchecked , would run to ...
... fome degree , against the interests of the community . Innumerable are the modes in which hypocrify may de- ceive , tyranny opprefs , corruption debauch , or negligence fquander ; any one of which crimes , unchecked , would run to ...
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... fome hope in the future , from our knowledge of the past . A difhonoured reign may pafs away in our annals , like a cloudy day in fummer ; and if the day be not too long , nor the tempeft too violent , the glories of the fuc- ceeding ...
... fome hope in the future , from our knowledge of the past . A difhonoured reign may pafs away in our annals , like a cloudy day in fummer ; and if the day be not too long , nor the tempeft too violent , the glories of the fuc- ceeding ...
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... new harvest should arife , adapted to the season , and to the taftes of men , lefs loath- fome , but more poisonous and fatal . The unextirpated abufes of former times , mel- lowed lowed now by age , would be refined into a APPENDIX . 25.
... new harvest should arife , adapted to the season , and to the taftes of men , lefs loath- fome , but more poisonous and fatal . The unextirpated abufes of former times , mel- lowed lowed now by age , would be refined into a APPENDIX . 25.
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... fome under - current , out of his latitude and contrary to his reckon- ing . Real pay indeed was to compenfate the futility of nominal rank ; but the private favour was precarious , and the public odium certain . He was to be the ...
... fome under - current , out of his latitude and contrary to his reckon- ing . Real pay indeed was to compenfate the futility of nominal rank ; but the private favour was precarious , and the public odium certain . He was to be the ...
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... fome affurance of protection from the fleet of England , Lord Sandwich in- formed them , that his was merely an executive department . " When they waited on the Secretary of State for America , to folicit fome attention from government ...
... fome affurance of protection from the fleet of England , Lord Sandwich in- formed them , that his was merely an executive department . " When they waited on the Secretary of State for America , to folicit fome attention from government ...
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