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Page 159
... posterity . A man that talks of his nation's honour a thousand years hence , is in very great danger of being laught at . We fhall think , fays Cynthio , you have a mind to fall out with the government , because it does not encourage ...
... posterity . A man that talks of his nation's honour a thousand years hence , is in very great danger of being laught at . We fhall think , fays Cynthio , you have a mind to fall out with the government , because it does not encourage ...
Page 164
... posterity may laugh without offence . For my part , I cannot but look on this kind of rallery as a refine- ment on medals : And do not fee why there not be fome for diverfion , at the fame time that there are others of a more folemn and ...
... posterity may laugh without offence . For my part , I cannot but look on this kind of rallery as a refine- ment on medals : And do not fee why there not be fome for diverfion , at the fame time that there are others of a more folemn and ...
Page 174
... posterity takes its notions of us from our medals , they must fancy one of our Kings paid a great devotion to Minerva , that another was a profeffed worshipper of Apollo , or at beft that our whole religion was a mixture of paganism and ...
... posterity takes its notions of us from our medals , they must fancy one of our Kings paid a great devotion to Minerva , that another was a profeffed worshipper of Apollo , or at beft that our whole religion was a mixture of paganism and ...
Page 280
... the worst fort of management that we can poffibly fall into . The good husbandry of one age may intail an endless expence upon all posterity . Wę We must venture the facrificing a part of our lives 280 THE PRESENT STATE.
... the worst fort of management that we can poffibly fall into . The good husbandry of one age may intail an endless expence upon all posterity . Wę We must venture the facrificing a part of our lives 280 THE PRESENT STATE.
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Ægyptus againſt ancient Apoſtles becauſe Befides chriftians Claud Claudian confefs confideration Creech cuſtoms dæmons defcription defign Difciples Dryden Emperor enemy fame fancy fatire fays Cynthio fays Eugenius fays Philander fecond feen fenfe feveral fhall fhew fhort fide figure fince firft firſt fome France French ftand ftill ftrength fubject fuch fufferings fuppofe greateſt hand hath heathen himſelf hiſtory honour infcription Irenæus itſelf Judæa King laft laſt learned lived loft mentioned miracles modern medals moſt muſt myſelf obferve occafion old coins Ovid paffage Pagan Parthia peace perfons philofophers pleaſe poets prefent preſerved publiſhed raiſed reaſon religion reprefented rifing Roman Rome S. C. Reverſe Saviour Saviour's hiftory ſee ſeen ſeveral ſhall ſhould ſhows Silius Italicus Spanish monarchy ſpeak ſtand ſtate ſtill Tertullian thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand tion Trajan uſe veftes verfe Virg Virgil