Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from ReviewsLongmans, Green, and Company [Spottiswoode and Company, Printers], 1874 - 411 من الصفحات |
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... remarkable that the great commoner , in the height of his well - earned popularity , besides putting up with more than one personal slight , allowed a congenial colleague ( Legge ) to be ousted , and a most uncongenial one ( Lord Bute ) ...
... remarkable that the great commoner , in the height of his well - earned popularity , besides putting up with more than one personal slight , allowed a congenial colleague ( Legge ) to be ousted , and a most uncongenial one ( Lord Bute ) ...
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... remarkable than their appositeness : ' Where has this species of guilt ( constructive treason ) been so long concealed ? Where has this fire been so long buried , during so many centuries , that no smoke should appear , till it burst ...
... remarkable than their appositeness : ' Where has this species of guilt ( constructive treason ) been so long concealed ? Where has this fire been so long buried , during so many centuries , that no smoke should appear , till it burst ...
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... remarkable humour and tone , the Duke of Buckingham , both surprised and disappointed , after his way , cried out : The man is inspired , and claret has done the business . " 1 6 The witty and profligate Lord Rochester was less ...
... remarkable humour and tone , the Duke of Buckingham , both surprised and disappointed , after his way , cried out : The man is inspired , and claret has done the business . " 1 6 The witty and profligate Lord Rochester was less ...
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... remarkable ex- amples of this description of precocity ; and the pheno- menon ceases to inspire wonder , if we reflect on the very different sort of training required for public life in their day ; when political economy was in its ...
... remarkable ex- amples of this description of precocity ; and the pheno- menon ceases to inspire wonder , if we reflect on the very different sort of training required for public life in their day ; when political economy was in its ...
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... remarkable than its strength . The swell and pomp are in the manner and the thought . He was wont to recommend the assiduous study of Barrow's Sermons for style . If a cultivated American were asked to name the greatest American orator ...
... remarkable than its strength . The swell and pomp are in the manner and the thought . He was wont to recommend the assiduous study of Barrow's Sermons for style . If a cultivated American were asked to name the greatest American orator ...
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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...