The English Nation; Or, A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen, Հատոր 3

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George Godfrey Cunningham
A. Fullarton & Company, 1863
 

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Էջ 321 - We were all, at the first night of it, in great uncertainty of the event ; till we were very much encouraged by overhearing the Duke of Argyle, who sat in the next box to us, say, ' It will do — it must do ! I see it in the eyes of them.
Էջ 701 - Pitt was then one of the poor; and to him Heaven directed a portion of the wealth of the haughty Dowager. She left him a legacy of ten thousand pounds, in consideration of " the noble defence he had made for the support of the laws of England, and to prevent the ruin of his country.
Էջ 492 - When I deny sensible things an existence out of the mind, I do not mean my mind in particular, but all minds. Now it is plain they have an existence exterior to my mind, since I find them by experience to be independent of it.
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Էջ 378 - Inquiry into the Constitution, Discipline, Unity, and Worship of the Primitive Church.
Էջ 295 - I now design to suppress. Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady, that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits, as have to do with her.
Էջ 522 - Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry'.
Էջ 175 - The difficulties and discouragements which attend the Study of the Scriptures, in the way of private judgment...
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