Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from ReviewsLongmans, Green, and Company [Spottiswoode and Company, Printers], 1874 - 411 من الصفحات |
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... telling the Duke of York , who had taken his seat on the right hand of the throne , that his proper place , as only heir pre- sumptive , was on the left . The Duke submitted with an exceedingly bad grace , exclaiming : My Lord , you are ...
... telling the Duke of York , who had taken his seat on the right hand of the throne , that his proper place , as only heir pre- sumptive , was on the left . The Duke submitted with an exceedingly bad grace , exclaiming : My Lord , you are ...
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... tell me who is to lead the House of Commons . ' Tell us who is to lead on either side in the contingency of Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Disraeli being superseded or displaced ? There arose no such difficulty in 1754 . Thanks to the ducal ...
... tell me who is to lead the House of Commons . ' Tell us who is to lead on either side in the contingency of Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Disraeli being superseded or displaced ? There arose no such difficulty in 1754 . Thanks to the ducal ...
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... tell you plainly , I will hold my ground . I will not quail till my profession tell me I ought , or , at all events , till the House of Commons shall censure me for what I have done . ' More than one embarrassing collision has been ...
... tell you plainly , I will hold my ground . I will not quail till my profession tell me I ought , or , at all events , till the House of Commons shall censure me for what I have done . ' More than one embarrassing collision has been ...
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... tell you , Sir , that most of them have had the courage to do things which , I may boldly say , few other Christians durst so have adventured their souls to have attempted : they have not only subdued their enemies , but their masters ...
... tell you , Sir , that most of them have had the courage to do things which , I may boldly say , few other Christians durst so have adventured their souls to have attempted : they have not only subdued their enemies , but their masters ...
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... tell . But let me see that man that dare run the Earl of Danby down , and we shall soon see what will become of him . ' This being pronounced with a remarkable humour and tone , the Duke of Buckingham , both surprised and disappointed ...
... tell . But let me see that man that dare run the Earl of Danby down , and we shall soon see what will become of him . ' This being pronounced with a remarkable humour and tone , the Duke of Buckingham , both surprised and disappointed ...
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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...