Free Thoughts on Despotic and Free Governments: As Connected with the Happiness of the Governor and the GovernedCharles Dilly, 1781 - 316 sivua |
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... ambition of unhappy mortals , hur- ried away by their inordinate love of power ? Blinded by this paffion , they have grafped the pillars of the ftate , brought down destruction on themselves , and buri- ed nations in the ruins . Such ...
... ambition of unhappy mortals , hur- ried away by their inordinate love of power ? Blinded by this paffion , they have grafped the pillars of the ftate , brought down destruction on themselves , and buri- ed nations in the ruins . Such ...
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... ambitious mind have been taken from private life and feated on a throne , or , being feated on the throne of a limited monarchy , have been able to shake off all restraint , and wield a defpotic fceptre , the fudden blaze of glory has ...
... ambitious mind have been taken from private life and feated on a throne , or , being feated on the throne of a limited monarchy , have been able to shake off all restraint , and wield a defpotic fceptre , the fudden blaze of glory has ...
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... ambition ! that a prince should choose rather to be feared than loved ; dreaded than revered ; the object of abhorrence than the object of delight ! that a fovereign fhould wish rather to reign over the bodies , than in the minds of his ...
... ambition ! that a prince should choose rather to be feared than loved ; dreaded than revered ; the object of abhorrence than the object of delight ! that a fovereign fhould wish rather to reign over the bodies , than in the minds of his ...
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... ambitious mind . This melan- choly truth was felt and acknowledged by Severus . Satiated with power , all his profpects of life were clofed . Gibbon , Fall of Rom . Emp . ch . 6 . affections affections of his people , would be the de ...
... ambitious mind . This melan- choly truth was felt and acknowledged by Severus . Satiated with power , all his profpects of life were clofed . Gibbon , Fall of Rom . Emp . ch . 6 . affections affections of his people , would be the de ...
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... ambitious mortals " exalt themselves as an eagle , and fet their nest among the stars , thence fhall they be brought down * ; " for dust they are , and unto duft they must return ; they shall defcend to the filent grave , " where the ...
... ambitious mortals " exalt themselves as an eagle , and fet their nest among the stars , thence fhall they be brought down * ; " for dust they are , and unto duft they must return ; they shall defcend to the filent grave , " where the ...
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Sivu 315 - And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth...
Sivu 316 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the falling together; and a little child shall lead them.
Sivu 310 - Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel ; and they said, Nay ; but we will have a king over us ; that we also may be like all the nations ; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
Sivu 202 - This is the state of man : To-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him; The third day comes a frost, a killing frost; And — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Sivu 202 - This many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my depth ; my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Sivu 135 - Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand; 7 to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; ' to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 'to execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints.
Sivu 309 - And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you : He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen ; and some shall run before his chariots.
Sivu 264 - ... and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Sivu 308 - And the Lord said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee ; for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.
Sivu 309 - And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants. And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.