Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, المجلدات 3-4A. C. Armstrong & Son, 1897 |
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الصفحة 50
... produced that revolution . Why was the French Revolution so bloody and destructive ? Why was our revolution of 1641 comparatively mild ? Why was our revolution of 1688 milder still ? Why was the American Revolution , considered as an ...
... produced that revolution . Why was the French Revolution so bloody and destructive ? Why was our revolution of 1641 comparatively mild ? Why was our revolution of 1688 milder still ? Why was the American Revolution , considered as an ...
الصفحة 52
... produced on an armed and victorious body ! If , after the 10th of August , or after the proscription of the Gironde , or after the 9th of Thermidor , or after the carnage of Vendèmiaire , or after the arrests of Fruc tiaor , any ...
... produced on an armed and victorious body ! If , after the 10th of August , or after the proscription of the Gironde , or after the 9th of Thermidor , or after the carnage of Vendèmiaire , or after the arrests of Fruc tiaor , any ...
الصفحة 53
... produced L'Hôpital , which , in an age of courtiers , produced D'Aguesseau - which , in an age of wickedness and madness , exhibited to man- kind a pattern of every virtue in the life and in the death of Malesherbes . The respectful ...
... produced L'Hôpital , which , in an age of courtiers , produced D'Aguesseau - which , in an age of wickedness and madness , exhibited to man- kind a pattern of every virtue in the life and in the death of Malesherbes . The respectful ...
الصفحة 58
... produced on his worshippers can be compared only to those illusions to which lovers are proverbially sub- ject during the season of courtship . It was an illusion which affected even the senses . The contemporaries of Louis thought him ...
... produced on his worshippers can be compared only to those illusions to which lovers are proverbially sub- ject during the season of courtship . It was an illusion which affected even the senses . The contemporaries of Louis thought him ...
الصفحة 61
... produced on others . He neither loved nor respected the king . Yet even this man , one of the most liberal men in France , was struck dumb with astonishment at hear- ing the fundamental axiom of all government pro- pounded , an axiom ...
... produced on others . He neither loved nor respected the king . Yet even this man , one of the most liberal men in France , was struck dumb with astonishment at hear- ing the fundamental axiom of all government pro- pounded , an axiom ...
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الصفحة 292 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
الصفحة 309 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigor when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
الصفحة 308 - 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 86 - We very much doubt whether Lord Mahon can prove that the income which the Spanish government derived from the mines of America fluctuated more than the income derived from the internal taxes of Spain itself. All the causes of the decay of Spain resolve themselves into one cause, bad government.
الصفحة 465 - To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god. The aim of the Baconian philosophy was to provide man with what he requires while he continues to be man. The aim of the Platonic philosophy wa.s to raise us far above vulgar wants. The aim of the Baconian philosophy was to supply our vulgar wants. The former aim was noble ; but the latter was attainable.
الصفحة 173 - Where the Church must needs have some ordained, and neither hath nor can have possibly a bishop to ordain, in case of such necessity the ordinary institution of God hath given oftentimes, and may give place. And therefore we are not simply without exception to urge a lineal descent of power from the Apostles by continued succession of bishops in every effectual ordination.
الصفحة 358 - 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.