The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select, المجلد 2J. Cumberland, 1826 |
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... mind , he added a warmth of temper which would suffer him to brook from no man , or in any place , the slightest indignity . Of this he exhibited on one occasion an eminent proof . The Earl of Stair , Secre- tary of State and Minister ...
... mind , he added a warmth of temper which would suffer him to brook from no man , or in any place , the slightest indignity . Of this he exhibited on one occasion an eminent proof . The Earl of Stair , Secre- tary of State and Minister ...
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... mind and the extent of his imagination , has been styled the Shakespeare of Divines . His sermons abound with some of the most brilliant passages , and embrace such a variety of matter , and such a mass of knowledge and of learning ...
... mind and the extent of his imagination , has been styled the Shakespeare of Divines . His sermons abound with some of the most brilliant passages , and embrace such a variety of matter , and such a mass of knowledge and of learning ...
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... mind ; but turning the paper on both sides , he said , " My brethren , here is nothing , and there is nothing ; out of nothing God created all things ; " and proceeded to deliver a most eloquent discourse on the wonders of the creation ...
... mind ; but turning the paper on both sides , he said , " My brethren , here is nothing , and there is nothing ; out of nothing God created all things ; " and proceeded to deliver a most eloquent discourse on the wonders of the creation ...
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... minds , in the way in which they had been bribed ; and with such men , the eloquence even of an angel could have been of no avail . The speech is a fine specimen of simple and unaf- fected oratory . After a very brief exordium , the ...
... minds , in the way in which they had been bribed ; and with such men , the eloquence even of an angel could have been of no avail . The speech is a fine specimen of simple and unaf- fected oratory . After a very brief exordium , the ...
الصفحة 64
... mind , His genius soar'd when Britons droop'd and pin'd . " . GARRICK . Lord Chatham entered the House of Lords for the last time on the 7th of April , 1778 , leaning upon two friends . He was wrapped up in flannel , and looked pale and ...
... mind , His genius soar'd when Britons droop'd and pin'd . " . GARRICK . Lord Chatham entered the House of Lords for the last time on the 7th of April , 1778 , leaning upon two friends . He was wrapped up in flannel , and looked pale and ...
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الصفحة 106 - Gentlemen may cry peace! peace! but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
الصفحة 17 - Support, and ornament of Virtue's cause. There stands the messenger of truth : there stands The legate of the skies ! — His theme divine, His office sacred, his credentials clear. By him the violated law speaks out Its thunders ; and by him, in strains as sweet As angels use, the Gospel whispers peace.
الصفحة 41 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance : for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. . But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
الصفحة 40 - Caesar had his Brutus — Charles the first, his Cromwell — and George the third — ('Treason,' cried the speaker — ' treason, treason/ echoed from every part of the house.
الصفحة 27 - We have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety to take heed how we commit ourselves to armed multitudes, for fear of treachery ; but I assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people. Let tyrants fear...
الصفحة 27 - I myself will take up arms; I myself will be your general, judge, and rewarder of every one of your virtues in the field. I know already...
الصفحة 62 - The wretch who, after having seen the consequences of a thousand errors, continues still to blunder, and whose age has only added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely the object of either abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his gray hairs should secure him from insult.
الصفحة 107 - The unhappy people of India, feeble and effeminate as they are from the softness of their climate, and subdued and broken as they have been by the knavery and strength of civilization, still occasionally start up in all the vigour and intelligence of insulted nature : — to be governed at all, they must be governed with a rod of iron ; and our empire in the East would, long since, have been lost to Great Britain, if civil skill and military prowess had not united their efforts to support an authority...
الصفحة 57 - If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his. If then that friend demand, why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer,— Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.
الصفحة 64 - He looked like a dying man ; yet never was seen a figure of more dignity ; he appeared like a being of a superior species.