Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from ReviewsLongmans, Green, and Company [Spottiswoode and Company, Printers], 1874 - 411 من الصفحات |
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... equally true of the peculiar object of his vituperation : that it was in small circles , and , above all , in the House of Lords , that Shaftesbury's ascendency was felt . He is never vehement or de- clamatory . He never appeals to the ...
... equally true of the peculiar object of his vituperation : that it was in small circles , and , above all , in the House of Lords , that Shaftesbury's ascendency was felt . He is never vehement or de- clamatory . He never appeals to the ...
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... equally strange language , or impertinence , ' was hazarded by Mr. Price , as member of a deputation , before the Lords of the Treasury . " not one spoken sentence has been preserved . There is 38 THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT :
... equally strange language , or impertinence , ' was hazarded by Mr. Price , as member of a deputation , before the Lords of the Treasury . " not one spoken sentence has been preserved . There is 38 THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT :
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... equally to blush . ' 6 When Walpole first spoke in the House his manner was ungraceful , he paused for want of words , and could only stutter and stammer . What future promise ( it was asked ) was there in that sturdy , bull - necked ...
... equally to blush . ' 6 When Walpole first spoke in the House his manner was ungraceful , he paused for want of words , and could only stutter and stammer . What future promise ( it was asked ) was there in that sturdy , bull - necked ...
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... equally good of Lord Palmerston . Let us come to particulars . Lord North saw or was seen by Lord Chatham and his son William Pitt , by the first Lord Holland and Charles James Fox , by Burke , Sheridan , Murray ( Lord Mansfield ) ...
... equally good of Lord Palmerston . Let us come to particulars . Lord North saw or was seen by Lord Chatham and his son William Pitt , by the first Lord Holland and Charles James Fox , by Burke , Sheridan , Murray ( Lord Mansfield ) ...
الصفحة 53
... equally characterized Walpole and Palmerston , although the fixed aim of the one was national honour at the risk of war , and that of the other a peace - at - any - price prosperity . Like Walpole , Lord Palmerston had all the speaking ...
... equally characterized Walpole and Palmerston , although the fixed aim of the one was national honour at the risk of war , and that of the other a peace - at - any - price prosperity . Like Walpole , Lord Palmerston had all the speaking ...
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الصفحة 350 - But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.
الصفحة 391 - BIBLE ANIMALS ; being a Description of every Living Creature mentioned in the Scriptures, from the Ape to the Coral.
الصفحة 385 - An Outline of the Necessary Laws of Thought : a Treatise on Pure and Applied Logic.
الصفحة 382 - A STUDENT'S MANUAL of the HISTORY of INDIA, from the Earliest Period to the Present.
الصفحة 388 - Other Worlds than Ours ; The Plurality of Worlds Studied under the Light of Recent Scientific Researches.
الصفحة 392 - A SYSTEM of SURGERY, Theoretical and Practical. In Treatises by Various Authors.
الصفحة 13 - 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 his 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 man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
الصفحة 235 - Who knows but He whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind...
الصفحة 386 - A Greek-English Lexicon. Compiled by HG LIDDELL, DD Dean of Christ Church, and R. SCOTT, D,D. Dean of Rochester. Sixth Edition. Crown 4to. price 36s. A Lexicon, Greek and English, abridged for Schools from LIDDELL and SCOTT's Greek-English Lexicon.
الصفحة 1 - He made an administration so checkered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed, a cabinet so variously inlaid, such a piece of diversified mosaic, such a tesselated pavement without cement, — here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white, patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans, whigs and tories, treacherous friends and open enemies, — that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to...