The Port FolioEditor and Asbury Dickens, 1819 |
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Pagina 2
... Readers and Correspon- dents " for last October , and our suspicions were removed by another note from the transcriber . If he be guilty of what has been imputed to him , ( by public rumour , for we know nothing otherwise ) , he is ...
... Readers and Correspon- dents " for last October , and our suspicions were removed by another note from the transcriber . If he be guilty of what has been imputed to him , ( by public rumour , for we know nothing otherwise ) , he is ...
Pagina 5
... readers to attend to the manner in which he conveys instruction . " There is no method of keeping possession of a conquered country so effectual as to impoverish or ruin it . Whoever becomes master of a state accustomed to freedom ...
... readers to attend to the manner in which he conveys instruction . " There is no method of keeping possession of a conquered country so effectual as to impoverish or ruin it . Whoever becomes master of a state accustomed to freedom ...
Pagina 6
... reader , and be- cause I wish not to dazzle his eyes with their false lustre , but pre- sent him with a view of his vices in all their native ugliness . On the last day of the year 1502 he murdered Paolo Ursino , the duke of Gravina ...
... reader , and be- cause I wish not to dazzle his eyes with their false lustre , but pre- sent him with a view of his vices in all their native ugliness . On the last day of the year 1502 he murdered Paolo Ursino , the duke of Gravina ...
Pagina 7
... Deûm Stygiis sese extulit undis . I now appeal to the good sense of the reader , whether it is likely that Machiavel seriously recommended such a monster as a mo- del for imitation . I cannot indeed convey a better LIFE OF MACHIAVEL 7.
... Deûm Stygiis sese extulit undis . I now appeal to the good sense of the reader , whether it is likely that Machiavel seriously recommended such a monster as a mo- del for imitation . I cannot indeed convey a better LIFE OF MACHIAVEL 7.
Pagina 14
... reader has no doubt seen the real drift of the whole work . To accuse its author of seriously recommending tyranny , would be as absurd as to say that Swift was serious in his advice to servants . The fact is , that Machiavel says ...
... reader has no doubt seen the real drift of the whole work . To accuse its author of seriously recommending tyranny , would be as absurd as to say that Swift was serious in his advice to servants . The fact is , that Machiavel says ...
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Pagina 266 - To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States...
Pagina 23 - How many are the days of the years of thy life? And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have been the days of the years of my life...
Pagina 245 - Frugality may be termed the daughter of prudence, the sister of temperance, and the parent of liberty. He that is extravagant will quickly become poor, and po'verty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption...
Pagina 153 - And opened on a narrow green, Where weeping birch and willow round With their long fibres swept the ground; Here, for retreat in dangerous hour, Some chief had framed a rustic bower.
Pagina 326 - For time is like a fashionable host, That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer : welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing.
Pagina 269 - The Congress shall have Power 1 To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States...
Pagina 141 - In short, every summer one lives in a state of mutiny and murmur, and I have found the reason: it is because we will affect to have a summer, and we have no title to any such thing. Our poets learnt their trade of the Romans, and so adopted the terms of their masters. They talk of shady groves, purling streams, and cooling breezes, and we get sore throats and agues with attempting to realize these visions.
Pagina 269 - To borrow Money on the credit of the United States ; 3 To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes...
Pagina 316 - ... sudden fits of inadvertency will surprise vigilance, slight avocations will seduce attention, and casual eclipses of the mind will darken learning; and that the writer shall often in vain trace his memory at the moment of need for that which yesterday he knew with intuitive readiness, and which will come uncalled into his thoughts tomorrow.
Pagina 302 - And yet it fills me with wonder, that, in almost all countries, the most ancient poets are considered as the best; whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is an acquisition gradually attained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once...