The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select [by] Sholto and Reuben Percy, Brothers of the Benedictine Monastery, Mont Benger, المجلد 2T. Boys, 1826 |
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... look , of words , of gesture , which alone is truly dignified , and truly eloquent . Mounted on a noble charger , with a general's truncheon in her hand , a corslet of polished steel laced on over her magnificent apparel , and a page in ...
... look , of words , of gesture , which alone is truly dignified , and truly eloquent . Mounted on a noble charger , with a general's truncheon in her hand , a corslet of polished steel laced on over her magnificent apparel , and a page in ...
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... looks . Mr. Fox ( after- wards Lord Holland , ) whose gloomy countenance strongly marked his character , observed , " That it was unjust , ungenerous , and unmanly , to censure a man for that signature which God had impressed upon his ...
... looks . Mr. Fox ( after- wards Lord Holland , ) whose gloomy countenance strongly marked his character , observed , " That it was unjust , ungenerous , and unmanly , to censure a man for that signature which God had impressed upon his ...
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... my pride with you to look into the Texel , and see a foe which dreaded coming out to meet us . My pride is now humble indeed ! My feelings are not easily to be ence . expressed ! Our cup has overflowed , and made us 60 PERCY ANECDOTES .
... my pride with you to look into the Texel , and see a foe which dreaded coming out to meet us . My pride is now humble indeed ! My feelings are not easily to be ence . expressed ! Our cup has overflowed , and made us 60 PERCY ANECDOTES .
الصفحة 63
... look in silence upon public delinquency . I will exert my endea- vours , at whatever hazard , to repel the aggression , and drag the offenders to justice , whatever may protect them in their villainy , and whoever may partake of their G ...
... look in silence upon public delinquency . I will exert my endea- vours , at whatever hazard , to repel the aggression , and drag the offenders to justice , whatever may protect them in their villainy , and whoever may partake of their G ...
الصفحة 78
... look , not like our nation , with store of flesh on their backs , but like so many ghosts , and not men , being nothing but skin and bones , with some thin cover to their nakedness , and wearing only wooden shoes on their feet , so that ...
... look , not like our nation , with store of flesh on their backs , but like so many ghosts , and not men , being nothing but skin and bones , with some thin cover to their nakedness , and wearing only wooden shoes on their feet , so that ...
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الصفحة 27 - I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king ! and of a king of England too...
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 - Cesar had his Brutus; Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third"—
الصفحة 123 - I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver; and he finished so admirably, that I emptied my pocket wholly into the collector's dish, gold and all.
الصفحة 146 - Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin: yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
الصفحة 106 - ... we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon, until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained ; we must fight ! I repeat it, Sir, we must fight ! An appeal to arms, and to the God of hosts, is all that is left us.
الصفحة 101 - List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music: Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter...
الصفحة 106 - It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. 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;...
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 27 - I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe should dare to invade the borders of my realm...