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... excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men , who their duties know , But know their rights , and knowing dare maintain , Prevent the long - aim'd blow , And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a state , And sov ...
... excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men , who their duties know , But know their rights , and knowing dare maintain , Prevent the long - aim'd blow , And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a state , And sov ...
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almoſt alſo American anſwer army becauſe beſt Britiſh buſineſs cafe cauſe cloſe commander confiderable confidered conſequences courſe court daugh defired deſign Earl enemy Engliſh Eſq eſtabliſhed faid fame feemed fent fide firſt fituation fleet fome foon force French fuch fuffered fufficient fuperiority honour houſe increaſe inſtance intereſt iſland iſſued itſelf king laſt late leſs Lord Cornwallis Lord George Lord George Gordon Lord Rawdon lordſhip majesty's meaſure ment minifters moſt muſt neceffary neceffity neceſſary neral obſerved occafion officers oppofition paffed parliament paſſed perfon poſed poſt preſent prifoners propoſed purpoſe queſtion raiſed reaſon reſpect river ſaid ſame ſay ſcene ſecond ſecurity ſeemed ſeen ſent ſerved ſervice ſeveral ſhall ſhare ſhe ſhew ſhips ſhould Sir Henry Clinton ſmall ſome ſpeaker ſpirit ſquadron ſtanding ſtate ſtill ſtrong ſubject ſuch ſupport ſuppoſed theſe thoſe tion troops uſe utmoſt veſſels whole whoſe
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Page 183 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No; Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a State; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Page 164 - I care not, Fortune, what you me deny : You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve...
Page 326 - Bounty (that is, the governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne for the Augmentation of the Maintenance of the Poor Clergy).
Page 142 - Ovid's metamorphoses were exhibited in confectionary ; and the splendid iceing of an immense historic plum-cake was embossed with a delicious basso-relievo of the destruction of Troy. In the afternoon, when she condescended to walk in the garden, the lake was covered with Tritons and Nereids ; the pages of the family were converted into Wood-nymphs who peeped from every bower ; and the footmen gamboled over the lawns in the figure of Satyrs.
Page 41 - Coffimbuzar and Jellinghy rivers, 'unite and form what is afterwards named the Hoogly River, which is the port of Calcutta, and the only branch of the Ganges that is commonly navigated by (hips.
Page 2 - ... without being checked either by the prejudices of education or by the clamours of the multitude.
Page 2 - In the life of Augustus, we behold the tyrant of the republic converted, almost by imperceptible degrees, into the father of his country and of human kind.
Page 194 - ... or elaborate conceits. If our author copies Petrarch, it is Petrarch's better manner : when he descends from his Platonic abstractions, his refinements of passion, his exaggerated compliments, and his play upon opposite sentiments, into a track of tenderness, simplicity, and nature. Petrarch would have been a better poet had he been a worse scholar. Our author's mind was not too much overlaid by learning.
Page 215 - Venice, returned early in 1715, and was appointed one of the gentlemen of the bedchamber to the prince of Wales. In the first parliament of this reign he was elected for the borough of St.
Page 52 - Calcutta it sometimes occasions an instantaneous rise of five feet ; and both here, and in every other part of its track, the boats, on its approach, immediately quit the shore, and make for safety to the middle of the river.