Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, المجلد 4Hurd & Houghton, 1860 |
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... England was in communion with Rome . We are tempted to make some remarks on another passage , which seems to be the peroration of a speech intended to have been spoken against the Reform Bill : but we forbear . We doubt whether it will ...
... England was in communion with Rome . We are tempted to make some remarks on another passage , which seems to be the peroration of a speech intended to have been spoken against the Reform Bill : but we forbear . We doubt whether it will ...
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... England , and that of Douglas in Scotland . During the latter years of George the Second , and through the whole reign of George the Third , mem- bers of that widely spread and powerful connection were almost constantly at the head ...
... England , and that of Douglas in Scotland . During the latter years of George the Second , and through the whole reign of George the Third , mem- bers of that widely spread and powerful connection were almost constantly at the head ...
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... England , and there sate in the House of Commons as burgess for Chichester . He attached himself to the Presbyterian party , and was one of those moderate members who , at the close of the year 1648 , voted for treating with Charles on ...
... England , and there sate in the House of Commons as burgess for Chichester . He attached himself to the Presbyterian party , and was one of those moderate members who , at the close of the year 1648 , voted for treating with Charles on ...
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... England was ringing with the news of the violent dissolution of the Long Parlia- ment , she could not refrain from reminding Temple , with pardonable vanity , " how great she might have been , if she had been so wise as to have taken ...
... England was ringing with the news of the violent dissolution of the Long Parlia- ment , she could not refrain from reminding Temple , with pardonable vanity , " how great she might have been , if she had been so wise as to have taken ...
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... England employed themselves a hundred and eighty years ago , how far their minds were cultivated , what were their favourite studies , what degree of lib- erty was allowed to them , what use they made cf that liberty , what ...
... England employed themselves a hundred and eighty years ago , how far their minds were cultivated , what were their favourite studies , what degree of lib- erty was allowed to them , what use they made cf that liberty , what ...
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الصفحة 298 - The proudest royal houses are but of yesterday when compared with the line of the Supreme Pontiffs. That line we trace back in an unbroken series from the Pope who crowned Napoleon in the nineteenth century, to the Pope who crowned Pepin in the eighth ; and far beyond the time of Pepin the august dynasty extends till it is lost in the twilight of fable.
الصفحة 267 - ... fallen predecessor. The immense population of his dominions was given up as a prey to those who had made him a sovereign, and who could unmake him. The...
الصفحة 419 - ... than grace — with which the princely hospitality of that ancient mansion was dispensed. They will remember the venerable and benignant countenance, and the cordial voice of him who bade them welcome. They will remember that temper which years of pain, of sickness, of lameness, of confinement, seemed only to make sweeter and sweeter ; and that frank politeness, which at once relieved all the embarrassment of the youngest and most timid writer or artist, who found himself for the first time among...
الصفحة 396 - may have a somewhat better farewell, but it would do a man little service should he remember it to his dying day : " — "The miracle to-day is, that we find A lover true, not that a woman's kind.
الصفحة 396 - that comedy was written, as several know, some years before it was acted. When I wrote it, I had little thoughts of the stage ; but did it, to amuse myself in a slow recovery from a fit of sickness.
الصفحة 251 - The treasury of Bengal was thrown open to him. There were piled up, after the usage of Indian princes, immense masses of coin, among which might not seldom be detected the florins and byzants with which, before any European ship had turned the Cape of Good Hope, the Venetians purchased the stuffs and spices of the East. Clive walked between heaps of gold and silver, crowned with rubies and diamonds, and was at liberty to help himself.
الصفحة 216 - The sepoys came to Clive, not to complain of their scanty fare, but to propose that all the grain should be given to the Europeans, who required more nourishment than the natives of Asia. The thin gruel, they said, which was strained away from the rice, would suffice for themselves. History contains no more touching instance of military fidelity, or of the influence of a commanding mind.
الصفحة 116 - THE author of this volume is a young man of UQblemished character, and of distinguished parliamentary talents, the rising hope of those stern and unbending Tories who follow, reluctantly and mutinously, a leader whose experience and eloquence are indispensable to them, but whose cautious temper and moderate opinions they abhor.
الصفحة 244 - The day broke, the day which was to decide the fate of India. At sunrise the army of the Nabob, pouring through many openings from the camp, began to move towards the grove where the English lay. Forty thousand infantry, armed with fire-locks, pikes, swords, bows and arrows, covered the plain. They were accompanied by fifty pieces of ordnance of the largest size, each tugged by a long team of white...
الصفحة 102 - 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...