Memoirs of the Life and Times of Daniel De Foe: Containing a Review of His Writings, and His Opinions Upon a Variety of Important Matters, Civil and Ecclesiastical, Volumen1Hurst, Chance, and Company, 1830 |
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... politics chiefly that he acquired / distinction with his contemporaries , who bore witness to the influence of his writings . In the conflict of parties from the reign of Charles II . to the accession of George I. , few persons took a ...
... politics chiefly that he acquired / distinction with his contemporaries , who bore witness to the influence of his writings . In the conflict of parties from the reign of Charles II . to the accession of George I. , few persons took a ...
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... politics than may seem properly to fall within the province of biography , it must be remembered that De Foe passed the prime and vigour of his life in active employment , sometimes in the service of the state , and always occupied upon ...
... politics than may seem properly to fall within the province of biography , it must be remembered that De Foe passed the prime and vigour of his life in active employment , sometimes in the service of the state , and always occupied upon ...
Página x
... political and ecclesiastical , he freely avows a congeniality of thinking ; but he has no desire to prejudice the ... politics being the occasions of.
... political and ecclesiastical , he freely avows a congeniality of thinking ; but he has no desire to prejudice the ... politics being the occasions of.
Página xiv
... political restraints , or the al- lurement of temporal benefits ( a ) . Upon subjects that involve a contrariety of opi- nions , we are not to look for an uniformity of assent to the conclusions of any writer ; and he shews but an ...
... political restraints , or the al- lurement of temporal benefits ( a ) . Upon subjects that involve a contrariety of opi- nions , we are not to look for an uniformity of assent to the conclusions of any writer ; and he shews but an ...
Página xvii
... Political priests are no credit to religion , and commonly abuse their power for the oppression of adverse sects . When this is the case , they become the enemies of mankind , and may be treated accord- ingly . Good men cannot vindicate ...
... Political priests are no credit to religion , and commonly abuse their power for the oppression of adverse sects . When this is the case , they become the enemies of mankind , and may be treated accord- ingly . Good men cannot vindicate ...
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Página 280 - That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent of parliament, is against law.
Página xxxix - ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE , Of YORK. MARINER: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of AMERICA, near the Mouth of the Great River of OROONOQUE; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. WITH An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by PYRATES. Written by Himself.
Página 134 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Página xxx - A True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs. Veal, the next Day after her Death, to one Mrs Bargrave, at Canterbury, the 8th of September 1705...
Página 345 - These are the heroes that despise the Dutch, And rail at new-come foreigners so much ; Forgetting that themselves are all derived From the most scoundrel race that ever lived...
Página 345 - Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there: And 'twill be found upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.
Página 345 - The climate may this modern breed have mended, Wise Providence, to keep us where we are, Mixes us daily with exceeding care: We have been Europe's sink, the Jakes where she Voids all her offal outcast progeny.
Página 65 - Queen Mary, as now in our days. When God has given us a Prince, who is become (may I Kay a miracle) zealous of being the author and instrument of so glorious a work ; but the opposition we are sure to meet with, is also like to be great : so that it imports us to get all the aid and assistance we can, for the harvest is great, and the labourers but few.
Página 100 - Mazarine, &c., a French boy singing love-songs,* in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers and other dissolute persons were at Basset round a large table, a bank of at least 2000 in gold before them ; upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflections with astonishment. Six days after was all in the dust...
Página xxxix - The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr Duncan Campbell, a Gentleman, who, though Deaf and Dumb, writes down any Stranger's name at first sight, with their future Contingencies of Fortune. Now living in Exeter court, over against the Savoy, in the Strand.