Flower's Political review and monthly register. (monthly miscellany) [afterw.] The Political review and monthly mirror of the times, Tom 9Benjamin Flower 1811 |
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Strona 307
... Genoese , availing themselves of the distracted state of the island , had very early contrived to settle a colony at Bonifaccio ; and , embol- dened by degrees , they landed troops on other parts of the country , and be- gan to bear a ...
... Genoese , availing themselves of the distracted state of the island , had very early contrived to settle a colony at Bonifaccio ; and , embol- dened by degrees , they landed troops on other parts of the country , and be- gan to bear a ...
Strona 308
... Genoese and the patriotic Corsi- cans , that family hath suffered pro- digiously , and its possessions are re- duced to a very narrow compass . The present head of the family is a worthy , sensible man , and very zea- lous in the great ...
... Genoese and the patriotic Corsi- cans , that family hath suffered pro- digiously , and its possessions are re- duced to a very narrow compass . The present head of the family is a worthy , sensible man , and very zea- lous in the great ...
Strona 309
... Genoese were the worst na- tion to whom Corsica could have fallen . The Corsicans were a peo- ple , impetuous , violent , and brave ; who had weathered many a storm ; and who could not have been go- verned , but by a state of which they ...
... Genoese were the worst na- tion to whom Corsica could have fallen . The Corsicans were a peo- ple , impetuous , violent , and brave ; who had weathered many a storm ; and who could not have been go- verned , but by a state of which they ...
Strona 310
... Genoese . The great Andrew Doria , though then in his eighty - seventh year , bid defiance to age and infirmities , and , since Cor- sica was an object of importance to his country , the gallant veteran ' em- barked with all the spirit ...
... Genoese . The great Andrew Doria , though then in his eighty - seventh year , bid defiance to age and infirmities , and , since Cor- sica was an object of importance to his country , the gallant veteran ' em- barked with all the spirit ...
Strona 311
... Genoese collector went to the house of a poor old woman , and demanded this trifling sum , as the money for which she was assessed . Being in extreme penury , she had not wherewithal to satisfy the demand . Upon which , the collector ...
... Genoese collector went to the house of a poor old woman , and demanded this trifling sum , as the money for which she was assessed . Being in extreme penury , she had not wherewithal to satisfy the demand . Upon which , the collector ...
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Strona 16 - ... books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect, that! bred them.
Strona 212 - Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions ; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
Strona 212 - Now once again by all concurrence of signs, and by the general instinct of holy and devout men, as they daily and solemnly express their thoughts, God is decreeing to begin some new and great period in His Church, even to the reforming of Reformation itself. What does He then but reveal Himself to His servants, and as His manner is, first to His Englishmen...
Strona 145 - To understand political power right and derive it from its original, we must consider what state all men are naturally in, and that is a state of perfect freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave or depending upon the will of any other man.
Strona 16 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
Strona 212 - ... is so sprightly up, as that it has not only wherewith to guard well its own freedom and safety, but to spare, and to bestow upon the solidest and sublimest points of controversy and new invention, it...
Strona 218 - ... up with the study of highest and most important matters to be reformed, should be disputing, reasoning, reading, inventing, discoursing, even to a rarity...
Strona 212 - Commons ; and from thence derives itself to a gallant bravery and wellgrounded contempt of their enemies, as if there were no small number of as great spirits among us as his was, who when Rome was nigh besieged by Hannibal, being in the city, bought that piece of ground at no cheap rate, whereon Hannibal himself encamped his own regiment.
Strona 212 - We can grow ignorant again, brutish, formal, and slavish, as ye found us; but you then must first become that which ye cannot be, oppressive, arbitrary, and tyrannous, as they were from whom ye have freed us.
Strona 218 - Reformation itself: what does He then but reveal Himself to His servants, and as His manner is, first to His Englishmen? I say, as His manner is, first to us, though we mark not the method of His counsels, and are unworthy.