A View of England: Towards the Close of the Eighteenth CenturyW. Sleater, 1791 |
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A View of England Towards the Close of the Eighteenth Century, Volym 1 Gebhard Friedrich August Wendeborn Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1791 |
A View of England Towards the Close of the Eighteenth Century, Volym 1 Gebhard Friedrich August Wendeborn Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1791 |
A View of England, 1: Towards the Close of Eighteenth Century, Volym 1 Gebhard Friedrich August Wendeborn Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1791 |
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Sida 316 - Bibles at all or else only that edition of it which was printed by the company of Stationers in the reign of Charles the First wherein they printed the seventh commandment without the word not...
Sida 235 - Fortinbras. Ham. How long is that fince ? Clown. Cannot you tell that ? every fool can tell that : it was that very day that young Hamlet was born, he that was mad, and fent into England. Ham. Ay, marry, why was he fent into England?
Sida 283 - The paffions and obftinacy of the children of. the former are broken very early, though not by violent means ; for a Quaker denies, with a firm compofure, fatisfying the impetuous defires of his' children; and gains, by ihefe means, infinitely over them.
Sida 257 - English, of all cultivated nations, approach the nearest to the character of what man in reality ought to be ; and Mr. Hume says, " Ihe English, of any people in the world, have the least of a national character, unless this very singularity may pass for one.
Sida 283 - England, ave a plain proof of the truth of the opinion here advanced ; for they have the fame climate and diet as the reft of the Englifh, and yet fuicide is unheard of among them, or at leaft extremely feldom.
Sida 266 - ... fashions of dress and furniture, the English are variable enough. From the high opinion which they entertain of themselves, it may be easily supposed that they look upon foreigners as much inferior. This fault in their national character was visible many centuries ago : and though they pride themselves on the name of Britons, which they bear in common with the Scots, yet they are rather more averse from them than even from a foreigner ; nor do the Irish seem to be much more in favour ; for an...
Sida 293 - Thofe who muft and who have a mind to work, do it with fpirit and affiduity; but the •majority, I believe, are inclined to live in eafe and indolence. No people are more fond of holy-days than their workmen and apprentices. Perhaps, they would fooner admit of defpotical laws, "than be deprived of their "ftated feafons for idlenefs, drunkennefs, and debauchery.
Sida 7 - Hume ; and, laffly, the memorable revolution of the houfe of commons. — " that the influence of " the crown had increafed, was " increafing, and ought to be di
Sida 266 - Though this was iaid, with great kindnefs and good intention, yet, it convinced me, that learning and good nature do not wholly remove the influence of early imbibed national prejudices. It is...
Sida 59 - Yet, amidst these rigours of justice, this great prince preserved the most sacred regard to the liberty of his people ; and it is a memorable sentiment preserved in his will, That it was just the English should for ever remain as free as their own thoughts'.