England Under Seven Administrations, Том 1

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Richard Bentley, 1837
 

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Стр. 113 - ... spectator, or so apt to receive his sympathy. I mean the teacher himself, who, stunned with the hum, and suffocated with the closeness of his schoolroom, has spent the whole day (himself against a host) in controlling petulance, exciting indifference to action, striving to enlighten stupidity, and...
Стр. 194 - Loquendum ut vulgus, sentiendum ut sapientes, yet certain it is that words, as a Tartar's bow, do shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgment ; so as it is almost necessary in all controversies and disputations to imitate the wisdom of the Mathematicians, in setting down in the very beginning the definitions of our words and terms, that others may know how we accept and understand them, and whether they concur with us or no. For it cometh to pass...
Стр. 179 - Eight hundred and fifty three with force and arms in the county aforesaid in and upon one Joseph Shomo in the peace of God and said State of Florida then and there being feloniously wilfully and of his malice aforethought did make an assault and that the said William B.
Стр. 221 - ... motives,' as hope of reward, or as fear of punishment. Now it is certain, that in former times the wise men, the enlightened lovers of their kind, who appeared generally as Moralists, Poets, or Priests, did, without neglecting the Mechanical province, deal chiefly with the Dynamical ; applying themselves chiefly to regulate, increase, and purify the inward primary powers of man ; and fancying that herein lay the main difficulty, and the best service they could undertake.
Стр. 128 - Fonblanque wrote on the occasion of Goderich's retirement. ' We are almost tempted to maintain the converse, and to hold that private virtues are often public mischiefs. George III.'s constancy to his wife and his shoulder of mutton, his taste for regularity and simplicity, and the blameless tenor of his domestic life, enabled him to plunge us into wasting, unjust, and unnecessary wars. Had he kept various concubines, and dined off French dishes at nine o'clock, the people would have had a lively...
Стр. 220 - Philosophy, Science, Art, Literature, all depend on machinery. No Newton, by silent meditation, now discovers the system of the world from the falling of an apple...
Стр. 224 - To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake ; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
Стр. 179 - JS, a certain pistol, of the value of five shillings, then and there loaded and charged with gunpowder and one leaden bullet, (which pistol he the said JS in his right hand then and there had and held), to, against, and upon the said J.
Стр. 180 - Lightfoot then and there instantly died, and so the jurors aforesaid, upon their oath aforesaid, do say, that the said David Beckett, the said John Lightfoot, in manner and form aforesaid, feloniously, wilfully, and of his malice aforethought, did kill and murder...
Стр. 179 - EF, one mortal wound, of the depth of four inches, and of the breadth of half an inch ; of which said mortal wound he the said EF then and there instantly died.

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