New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection ... from the Most Eminent Prose and Epistolary Writers ...C.& C. Whittingham, 1827 |
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... genius ; and avarice , the mad- ness of the wise : one chiefly actuated his youth , the other governed his age . The vices of young and light minds , the joys of wine , and the plea- sures of love , never reached his aspiring nature ...
... genius ; and avarice , the mad- ness of the wise : one chiefly actuated his youth , the other governed his age . The vices of young and light minds , the joys of wine , and the plea- sures of love , never reached his aspiring nature ...
الصفحة 7
... genius of the time he lived in , and which therefore enabled him to make a considerable figure in the transactions which distinguished that period . He was of a sincere , open , candid nature ; passionately fond of glory , ambitious ...
... genius of the time he lived in , and which therefore enabled him to make a considerable figure in the transactions which distinguished that period . He was of a sincere , open , candid nature ; passionately fond of glory , ambitious ...
الصفحة 8
... genius narrow , and his manners brutal ; full of craft , rapacious , without faith , without religion ; but circumspect , steady and courageous for his ends , not for glory . BURKE . Of the violent character of William , his rapa- city ...
... genius narrow , and his manners brutal ; full of craft , rapacious , without faith , without religion ; but circumspect , steady and courageous for his ends , not for glory . BURKE . Of the violent character of William , his rapa- city ...
الصفحة 86
... genius of the English noblemen , were the great means that debauched him from his circumspect conduct . Among the forwardest of the worthless tribe was Cecil , afterwards Earl of Salisbury , who told him on his coming to the crown ...
... genius of the English noblemen , were the great means that debauched him from his circumspect conduct . Among the forwardest of the worthless tribe was Cecil , afterwards Earl of Salisbury , who told him on his coming to the crown ...
الصفحة 94
... genius , or of discipline , established not by mili- tary rule only , but by the rule of Christ and of sanctity , that he drew all to his camp , as to the best school both of military science , and of reli- gion and piety - nay , those ...
... genius , or of discipline , established not by mili- tary rule only , but by the rule of Christ and of sanctity , that he drew all to his camp , as to the best school both of military science , and of reli- gion and piety - nay , those ...
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الصفحة 285 - What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said: But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
الصفحة 277 - ... human nature at one glance, and to be the only author that gives ground for a very new opinion, That the philosopher, and even the man of the world, may be born, as well as the poet.
الصفحة 216 - He was a man of admirable parts, of general knowledge, of a versatile understanding fitted for every sort of business, of infinite wit and pleasantry, of a delightful temper, and with a mind most perfectly disinterested.
الصفحة 171 - ... of a personal courage equal to his best parts; so that he was an enemy not to be wished wherever he might have been made a friend; and as much to be apprehended where he was so as any man could deserve to be.
الصفحة 275 - He was the man who, of all modern and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul.
الصفحة 103 - He was not a man of blood, and totally declined Machiavel's method, which prescribes, upon any alteration of government, as a thing absolutely necessary, to cut off all the heads of those, and extirpate their families, who are friends to the old one. It was confidently reported that, in the council of officers, it was more than once proposed, " that there might be a general massacre of all the royal party, as " the only expedient to secure the government " : but that Cromwell would never consent...
الصفحة 200 - During the session, the first in, and the last out of the house of commons ; he passes from the senate to the camp ; and seldom seeing the seat of his ancestors, he is always in the senate to serve his country, or in the field to defend it.
الصفحة 169 - I am persuaded his power and interest at that time were greater to do good or hurt than any man's in the kingdom, or than any man of his rank hath had in any time ; for his reputation of honesty was universal, and his affections seemed so publicly guided, that no corrupt or private ends could bias them...
الصفحة 338 - Mahomet must have been gradually stained: and the influence of such pernicious habits would be poorly compensated by the practice of the personal and social virtues which are necessary to maintain the reputation of a prophet among his sectaries and friends. Of his last years, ambition was the ruling passion; and a politician will suspect that he secretly smiled (the victorious impostor!) at the enthusiasm of his youth and the credulity of his proselytes.
الصفحة 96 - Without doubt, no man with more wickedness ever attempted any thing, or brought to pass what he desired more wickedly, more in the face and contempt of religion and moral honesty : yet wickedness as great as his could never have accomplished those designs without the assistance of a great spirit, an admirable circumspection and sagacity, and a most magnanimous resolution.