| Edmund Burke - 1790 - 536 sayfa
...equivocal'. - What refpect then can be paid 'to that which :defcribes nothing, and which means nbthing-? 5 -Imagination has given figure and character to centaurs,...down to all the fairy tribe ; but titles baffle even even the powers of fancy, and are a chimerical non-defcript. But this is not all. — If a whole country... | |
| 1791 - 618 sayfa
...or the rider or the liurle, is all equivocal. What refpedt then can be paid to that which defcribes nothing, and which means nothing? Imagination has...powers of fancy, and are a chimerical non-defcript.' The following obfervations on primogeniture are very juft ; and what is. added on ariftocracy, deferves... | |
| Thomas Paine - 1791 - 358 sayfa
...or the rider or the horfe, is all equivocal. What refpect then can be paid to that which defcribes nothing, and which means nothing ? Imagination has...down to all the fairy tribe ; but titles baffle even even the powers of fancy, and are a chimerical non-defcript. But this is not all. — If a whole country... | |
| Thomas Paine - 1795 - 180 sayfa
...or a man, or the rider or the horfe, is all equivocal. Imagination has given figure and char after to centaurs, fatyrs, and down to all the fairy tribe;...difpofed to hold them in contempt, all their value is gonej and none will own them. It is common "opinion" only that makes them any thing, or nothing, or... | |
| Thomas Paine - 1826 - 470 sayfa
...man, or a rider or a horse, is all equivocal. What respect then can be paid to that which describes nothing and which means nothing? Imagination has given figure and character -to centaurs, satyrs, and down to all the fairy tribe ; but titles baffle even the powers of fancy, and are a chimerical... | |
| Thomas Paine - 1826 - 482 sayfa
...man, or a rider or a horse, is all equivocal. What respect then can be paid to that which describes nothing and which means nothing? Imagination has given figure and character to centaurs, satyrs, and down to all the fairy tribe ; but titles baffle even the powers of fancy, and arc a chimerical... | |
| William Carpenter - 1833 - 270 sayfa
...describes nothing, and means nothing ? Imagination has given figure and character to centaurs, satyrs, and down to all the fairy tribe ; but titles baffle even the powers of fancy, and are a chimerical nondescript. But this is not all. — If a whole country is disposed to hold them in contempt, all... | |
| Thomas Paine - 1835 - 522 sayfa
...man, or a rider or a horse, is all equivocal. What respect then can be paid to that which describes nothing, and which means nothing? Imagination has given figure and character to centaurs, satyrs, and down to all the fairy tribe ; but titles baffle even the powers of fancy, and are a chimerical... | |
| 1837 - 352 sayfa
...; the rider or the horse ; is all equivocal. What respect then can be paid to that which describes nothing, and which means nothing ? Imagination has given figure and character to centaurs and satyrs, down to all the fairy tribe : but titles baffle even the powers of fancy, and are a chimerical... | |
| John Adolphus - 1841 - 702 sayfa
...horse, is all equi" vocal. Imagination has given figure and character " to centaurs, satyrs, and down to the fairy tribe ; but " titles baffle even the powers of fancy, and are a chi" merical non-descript." On the subject of monarchy, his opinions are, that it cannot be hereditary... | |
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