Political Essays, with Sketches of Public CharactersWilliam Hone, 1819 - 439 Seiten |
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... Times Newspaper Mr. Macirone's " Interesting Facts relating to the Fall and Death of Joachim Murat , King of Naples . " Wat Tyler and the Quarterly Review The Courier and Wat Tyler • Mr. Southey's Letter to William Smith , Esq . On.
... Times Newspaper Mr. Macirone's " Interesting Facts relating to the Fall and Death of Joachim Murat , King of Naples . " Wat Tyler and the Quarterly Review The Courier and Wat Tyler • Mr. Southey's Letter to William Smith , Esq . On.
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... facts and feelings , to call which in question would be equally inconsistent with proper respect to the people , or common decency towards the throne . An English subject cannot call this principle in question without renouncing his ...
... facts and feelings , to call which in question would be equally inconsistent with proper respect to the people , or common decency towards the throne . An English subject cannot call this principle in question without renouncing his ...
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... Lord Sidmouth ) rose , and in a tone of indignation , severely reprimanded Mr. Robson for having prema- turely brought forward a fact which he knew to be impossible ; and the House cheered the Minister , and b 2 PREFACE . xix.
... Lord Sidmouth ) rose , and in a tone of indignation , severely reprimanded Mr. Robson for having prema- turely brought forward a fact which he knew to be impossible ; and the House cheered the Minister , and b 2 PREFACE . xix.
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... fact identified with a man's pride and the servility of others in the highest degree ; the principle of liberty abstracts him from himself , and has to con- tend in its feeble course with all his own passions , prejudices , interests ...
... fact identified with a man's pride and the servility of others in the highest degree ; the principle of liberty abstracts him from himself , and has to con- tend in its feeble course with all his own passions , prejudices , interests ...
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... fact , a conve- nient medium to break the force of popular feeling , and to transmit the rays of popular indignation against the influence and power of the crown , blunted and neutralized by as many qualifications and refractions as ...
... fact , a conve- nient medium to break the force of popular feeling , and to transmit the rays of popular indignation against the influence and power of the crown , blunted and neutralized by as many qualifications and refractions as ...
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abuse admiration Allies answer better Bonaparte Bourbons Burke cause character Coleridge Commission of Government common consequences contempt Courier court divine right doctrine Duke of Wellington earth enemy equally evil favour feelings force Fouché France French Revolution genius give hands hates heart honour human imagination interest Jacobin John Ball justice King knaves labour Legitimacy liberty live Lord Castlereagh Lord William Bentinck Louis XVIII Malthus Malthus's mankind mind moral nation nature never object opinion Paris passions patriotism peace persons philosopher poet poetry political poor population prejudices present pretensions Prince principle Quarterly Review question reason reform Regicide Rehoboam reign religion renegado Robert Southey rotten boroughs sense sentiments shew slaves Southey Southey's spirit suppose Talleyrand taxes thing thought throne tion true truth understanding vanity Vetus vice and misery virtue Wat Tyler whole words wretched write
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Seite 99 - Avaunt ! and quit my sight ! let the earth hide thee ! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold ; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with.
Seite 372 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Seite 190 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
Seite 142 - And not for justice? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world, But for supporting robbers; shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes? And sell the mighty space of our large...
Seite 144 - What is he, whose grief Bears such an emphasis ? whose phrase of sorrow Conjures the wand'ring stars, and makes them stand Like wonder-wounded hearers ? this is I, Hamlet the Dane.
Seite 130 - Make the yoke which thy father did put upon us lighter? 10 And the young men that were grown up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou speak unto this people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it lighter unto us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins.
Seite 138 - The preacher then launched into his subject, like an eagle dallying with the wind. The sermon was upon peace and war — upon church and state — not their alliance, but their separation — on the spirit of the world, and the spirit of Christianity, not as the same, but as opposed to one another. He talked of those who had inscribed the cross of Christ on banners dripping with human gore.
Seite 166 - Of whatsoe'er descent their godhead be, Stock, stone, or other homely pedigree, In his defence his servants are as bold, As if he had been born of beaten gold.
Seite 138 - And for myself, I could not have been more delighted if I had heard the music of the spheres. Poetry and Philosophy had met together, Truth and Genius had embraced, under the eye and with the sanction of Religion. This was even beyond my hopes I returned home well satisfied.
Seite 222 - Make the hoar leprosy ador'd; place thieves, And give them title, knee, and approbation, With senators on the bench; this is it That makes the wappen'd widow wed again; She, whom the spital-house and ulcerous sores Would cast the gorge at, this embalms and spices To the April day again.