Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, المجلد 4Hurd & Houghton, 1860 |
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... equally ignorant contempt . After residing at Cambridge two years , he departed without taking a degree , and set out upon his travels . He seems to have been then a lively , agreeable young man of fashion , not by any means deeply read ...
... equally ignorant contempt . After residing at Cambridge two years , he departed without taking a degree , and set out upon his travels . He seems to have been then a lively , agreeable young man of fashion , not by any means deeply read ...
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... equally interesting billets with ten times their weight in state - papers taken at random . To us surely it is as useful to know how the young ladies of England employed themselves a hundred and eighty years ago , how far their minds ...
... equally interesting billets with ten times their weight in state - papers taken at random . To us surely it is as useful to know how the young ladies of England employed themselves a hundred and eighty years ago , how far their minds ...
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... equally high terms of De Witt . “ I must add these words , to do M. de Witt right , that I found him as plain , as direct and square in the course of this business as any man could be , though often stiff in points where he thought any ...
... equally high terms of De Witt . “ I must add these words , to do M. de Witt right , that I found him as plain , as direct and square in the course of this business as any man could be , though often stiff in points where he thought any ...
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... equally deserving of approbation . It did much to allay discontents , to reconcile the sover- eign with a people who had , under his wretched admin- istration , become ashamed of him and of themselves . It was a kind of pledge for ...
... equally deserving of approbation . It did much to allay discontents , to reconcile the sover- eign with a people who had , under his wretched admin- istration , become ashamed of him and of themselves . It was a kind of pledge for ...
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... equally ready to profess the faith of Geneva , of Lambeth , and of Rome ; who were equally ready to be tools of power without any sense of loyalty , and stirrers of sedition without any zeal for freedom . It was hardly possible even for ...
... equally ready to profess the faith of Geneva , of Lambeth , and of Rome ; who were equally ready to be tools of power without any sense of loyalty , and stirrers of sedition without any zeal for freedom . It was hardly possible even for ...
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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...