The British Parliament ... The pearls and mock pearls of history. Vicissitudes of families ... England and France ... Lady Palmerston. Lord Lansdowne. Lord Dalling and Bulwer. Whist and whist-playersLongmans, Green, and Company, 1878 |
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... fact that the real sovereignty of England had departed from the Crown . " 6 During the Reform Bill agitation of 1831 , an enthusiastically loyal orator1 at Nottingham called on ' The late Nathaniel Goldsmid , an Oxonian and barrister of ...
... fact that the real sovereignty of England had departed from the Crown . " 6 During the Reform Bill agitation of 1831 , an enthusiastically loyal orator1 at Nottingham called on ' The late Nathaniel Goldsmid , an Oxonian and barrister of ...
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... fact of a noble family having seven : a Whig Earl had as many when ( in 1830 ) he patriotically bartered his boroughs for a marquisate , to be followed by a dukedom.2 The counties , says Mr. Massey , were in the hands of the 1 History ...
... fact of a noble family having seven : a Whig Earl had as many when ( in 1830 ) he patriotically bartered his boroughs for a marquisate , to be followed by a dukedom.2 The counties , says Mr. Massey , were in the hands of the 1 History ...
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... fact . We have ample proof how entertaining Earl Stanhope can make history or biography ; and we know no one who has a choicer collec- tion of political anecdotes than Lord Cardwell or who relates them better . When this speech was ...
... fact . We have ample proof how entertaining Earl Stanhope can make history or biography ; and we know no one who has a choicer collec- tion of political anecdotes than Lord Cardwell or who relates them better . When this speech was ...
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... fact , but which we may take as the utterance of a prophecy . He says , " To the upright there ariseth light in the darkness . " Let us try in this manner to be upright . Let us try to be just . That cloud will be dispelled . The ...
... fact , but which we may take as the utterance of a prophecy . He says , " To the upright there ariseth light in the darkness . " Let us try in this manner to be upright . Let us try to be just . That cloud will be dispelled . The ...
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... fact ? Until nearly the middle of the eighteenth century , the earlier portions of Greek and Roman history were as implicitly believed as the later , and , from their exciting character , naturally sank deeper into the popular mind . In ...
... fact ? Until nearly the middle of the eighteenth century , the earlier portions of Greek and Roman history were as implicitly believed as the later , and , from their exciting character , naturally sank deeper into the popular mind . In ...
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الصفحة 101 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...
الصفحة 4 - In full-blown dignity, see Wolsey stand, Law in his voice, and fortune in his hand...
الصفحة 54 - We shall be forced ultimately to retract ; let us retract while we can, not when we must. I say we must necessarily undo these violent oppressive acts ; they must be repealed — you will repeal them ; I pledge myself for it, that you will in the end repeal them ; I stake my reputation on it — I will consent to be taken for an idiot, if they are not finally repealed.
الصفحة 441 - Surrey hie; Tunstall lies dead upon the field, His life-blood stains the spotless shield: Edmund is down; my life is reft; The Admiral alone is left, Let Stanley charge with spur of fire—- With Chester charge, and Lancashire, Full upon Scotland's central host, Or victory and England's lost. Must I bid twice? hence, varlets! fly! Leave Marmion here alone — to die.
الصفحة 55 - I will not, join in congratulation on misfortune and disgrace. This, my Lords, is a perilous and tremendous moment. It is not a time for adulation: the smoothness of flattery cannot save us in this rugged and awful crisis. It is now necessary to instruct the throne in the language of truth.
الصفحة 277 - No one shall run on the Sabbath Day, or walk in his garden, or elsewhere, except reverently to and from meeting. ' No one shall travel, cook victuals, make beds, sweep house, cut hair, or shave on the Sabbath Day. ' No woman shall kiss her child on the Sabbath or Fasting Day.
الصفحة 98 - Doth any man doubt that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves...
الصفحة 68 - Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction ; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation, into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains.
الصفحة 438 - A CLEAR fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game." This was the celebrated wish of old Sarah Battle, (now with God,) who, next to her devotions, loved a good game at whist.
الصفحة 99 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it; is the sovereign good of human nature.