Rasselas: Poems, and Selected ProseRinehart, 1958 - 612 من الصفحات Donated by Henry Spencer, August 2009. |
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الصفحة 76
... mankind will evince , that lawful and settled authority is very seldom resisted when it is well em- ployed . Gross corruption , or evident imbecillity is necessary to the suppression of that reverence with which the majority of mankind ...
... mankind will evince , that lawful and settled authority is very seldom resisted when it is well em- ployed . Gross corruption , or evident imbecillity is necessary to the suppression of that reverence with which the majority of mankind ...
الصفحة 157
... mankind , nothing is so superfluous , but that some one desires it ; or so common , but that some one is compelled to buy it . As nothing is useless but because it is in improper hands , what is thrown away by one is gath- ered up by ...
... mankind , nothing is so superfluous , but that some one desires it ; or so common , but that some one is compelled to buy it . As nothing is useless but because it is in improper hands , what is thrown away by one is gath- ered up by ...
الصفحة 239
... mankind , has undoubtedly votaries that reverence it , not from reason , but from prejudice . Some seem to admire indis- criminately whatever has been long preserved , without con- sidering that time has sometimes co - operated with ...
... mankind , has undoubtedly votaries that reverence it , not from reason , but from prejudice . Some seem to admire indis- criminately whatever has been long preserved , without con- sidering that time has sometimes co - operated with ...
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POETRY | 42 |
On the Death of Mr Robert Levet | 58 |
No 59 Oct 9 1750 Suspirius the ScreechOwl | 79 |
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