The Quarterly Review, المجلد 105William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1859 |
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... thought deficient in firmness ; and the same high appointment was a third time pressed upon him and accepted in 1805 , in the October of which year he died , from over - eagerness in the discharge of his public duties , at Ghuznee . The ...
... thought deficient in firmness ; and the same high appointment was a third time pressed upon him and accepted in 1805 , in the October of which year he died , from over - eagerness in the discharge of his public duties , at Ghuznee . The ...
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... thought of me for it . " I then said that if the King or Mr. Pitt had sent for me , and told me that my waiving my pretensions , and giving them a thou- sand pounds a - year out of my estate , was necessary for the support of Government ...
... thought of me for it . " I then said that if the King or Mr. Pitt had sent for me , and told me that my waiving my pretensions , and giving them a thou- sand pounds a - year out of my estate , was necessary for the support of Government ...
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... thought it indispensably necessary both that the measure must origi- nate with the Board of Control , and likewise that I should indace Mr. Pitt to become my partner in the final consideration of so important and controverted a measure ...
... thought it indispensably necessary both that the measure must origi- nate with the Board of Control , and likewise that I should indace Mr. Pitt to become my partner in the final consideration of so important and controverted a measure ...
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... thought of Sir Jonah Barrington's general accuracy , the custom which he ' records and illustrates of inviting a party to drink out a hogshead of claret , was notoriously prevalent . Castle Rackrent , ' at all events , will be received ...
... thought of Sir Jonah Barrington's general accuracy , the custom which he ' records and illustrates of inviting a party to drink out a hogshead of claret , was notoriously prevalent . Castle Rackrent , ' at all events , will be received ...
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... thought to betray a lack of courage . Challenges were given or provoked by way of mere bravado ; and what would now be considered the most indefensible irregularities , were permitted on the ground . In the duel between Lord Clare ...
... thought to betray a lack of courage . Challenges were given or provoked by way of mere bravado ; and what would now be considered the most indefensible irregularities , were permitted on the ground . In the duel between Lord Clare ...
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الصفحة 227 - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...
الصفحة 193 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help ? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary. and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
الصفحة 20 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days,
الصفحة 220 - Sir, a man has no more right to say an uncivil thing, than to act one; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.
الصفحة 178 - I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it.
الصفحة 49 - As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latins, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
الصفحة 234 - And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them ; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.
الصفحة 43 - O my love! my wife! Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty: Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
الصفحة 190 - Dear Bathurst (said he to me one day) was a man to my very heart's content : he hated a fool, and he hated a rogue, and he hated a whig; he was a very good hater...
الصفحة 20 - And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament, from the waters which were above the firmament : and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.