Sketches of the History of Man, Volumen3A. Strahan and T. Cadell, London; and for William Creech, Edinburgh, 1788 |
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... hands for every necef- fary art . It was a hazardous conftitution , having no medium between univerfal con- quest and wretched slavery . Had the Gauls who conquered Rome , entertained any view but of plunder , Rome would ne- ver have ...
... hands for every necef- fary art . It was a hazardous conftitution , having no medium between univerfal con- quest and wretched slavery . Had the Gauls who conquered Rome , entertained any view but of plunder , Rome would ne- ver have ...
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... hand , what resource for the inhabi- tants of Rome , had they been fubdued ? They must have perifhed by hunger ; for they could not work . In a word , ancient Rome resembles a gamester who ventures all upon one decisive throw : if he ...
... hand , what resource for the inhabi- tants of Rome , had they been fubdued ? They must have perifhed by hunger ; for they could not work . In a word , ancient Rome resembles a gamester who ventures all upon one decisive throw : if he ...
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... hands of a monarch , a standing army is an inftrument of power , too va- luable ever to be abandoned : if one fove- conftitutional , it occafioned not the flightest mur- mur , because its visible good tendency reconciled all the world ...
... hands of a monarch , a standing army is an inftrument of power , too va- luable ever to be abandoned : if one fove- conftitutional , it occafioned not the flightest mur- mur , because its visible good tendency reconciled all the world ...
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... hands of men who abhor the restraints of civil law , a folid foundation is laid for military go- vernment . Thus a ftanding army is dan- gerous to liberty , and yet no fufficient bulwark against powerful neighbours . Deeply fenfible of ...
... hands of men who abhor the restraints of civil law , a folid foundation is laid for military go- vernment . Thus a ftanding army is dan- gerous to liberty , and yet no fufficient bulwark against powerful neighbours . Deeply fenfible of ...
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... hands , that we have no fecurity against an invasion but a fupe- rior fleet . This unhappy fituation has , in the prefent war , thrown our minifters in- to great perplexity . Our field of action is America and the Weft Indies , and yet ...
... hands , that we have no fecurity against an invasion but a fupe- rior fleet . This unhappy fituation has , in the prefent war , thrown our minifters in- to great perplexity . Our field of action is America and the Weft Indies , and yet ...
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