Critical, Historical and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems, المجلد 2Albert Cogswell, 1882 |
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... opinion , moved only to a smile of mingled compas- sion and disdain . It was owing to the peculiar elevation of his character that he cared about a pinnacle of lath and plaster more than about the Middlesex election , and about HORACE ...
... opinion , moved only to a smile of mingled compas- sion and disdain . It was owing to the peculiar elevation of his character that he cared about a pinnacle of lath and plaster more than about the Middlesex election , and about HORACE ...
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... opinions , that uprooting of old truth and old error . It was plain that mighty principles were at work whether for ... opinion in the making . While he condemned their hostility to religion , he would have acknowledged that it was the ...
... opinions , that uprooting of old truth and old error . It was plain that mighty principles were at work whether for ... opinion in the making . While he condemned their hostility to religion , he would have acknowledged that it was the ...
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... opinion . We do not conceive that he had any power of discerning the finer shades of character . He prac- tised an art , however , which , though easy and even vulgar , obtains for those who practise it the reputation of discern- ment ...
... opinion . We do not conceive that he had any power of discerning the finer shades of character . He prac- tised an art , however , which , though easy and even vulgar , obtains for those who practise it the reputation of discern- ment ...
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... opinion is so great that , even before the reform of the representa- tion , a faint suspicion that a minister had given pecuniary gratifications to Members of Parliament in return for their votes would have been enough to ruin him . But ...
... opinion is so great that , even before the reform of the representa- tion , a faint suspicion that a minister had given pecuniary gratifications to Members of Parliament in return for their votes would have been enough to ruin him . But ...
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... opinion . A large proportion of the members had absolutely no motive to support any administration except their own interest , in the lowest sense of the word . Under these circumstances , the country could be governed only by ...
... opinion . A large proportion of the members had absolutely no motive to support any administration except their own interest , in the lowest sense of the word . Under these circumstances , the country could be governed only by ...
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الصفحة 113 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
الصفحة 159 - Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious.* No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly,* more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member* of his speech but consisted of the own graces: his hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.* No...
الصفحة 247 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
الصفحة 227 - It has lengthened life; it has mitigated pain; it has extinguished diseases; it has increased the fertility of the soil; it has given new securities to the mariner; it has furnished new arms to the warrior; it has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth...
الصفحة 247 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
الصفحة 247 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearselike airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
الصفحة 514 - Parr to suspend his labors in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition, a treasure too often buried in the earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant ostentation, but still precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted his faith.
الصفحة 247 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; .and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
الصفحة 66 - Cutler saw tenants break and houses fall; For very want he could not build a wall.
الصفحة 513 - There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited at Westminster; but, perhaps, there never was a spectacle so well calculated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, and imaginative mind.