Essays, Critical and MiscellaneousPhillips, Sampson, 1856 - 744 Seiten |
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... French Protestant . been to substitute a moral for a political servi tude , to exalt the Popes at the expense of the Cæsars . Happily the public mind of Italy had long contained the seeds of free opinions , which were now rapidly ...
... French Protestant . been to substitute a moral for a political servi tude , to exalt the Popes at the expense of the Cæsars . Happily the public mind of Italy had long contained the seeds of free opinions , which were now rapidly ...
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... French terval between the age of sublime invention stage resemble the waxen gentlemen and ladies in the window of a perfumer , rouged , curled , and bedizened , but fixed in such stiff attitudes , and staring with eyes expressive of ...
... French terval between the age of sublime invention stage resemble the waxen gentlemen and ladies in the window of a perfumer , rouged , curled , and bedizened , but fixed in such stiff attitudes , and staring with eyes expressive of ...
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... French manners fascinated him . With the political maxims and the so- cial habits of his favourite people , he adopted their taste in composition ; and , when seated on the throne , soon rendered it fashionable , partly by direct ...
... French manners fascinated him . With the political maxims and the so- cial habits of his favourite people , he adopted their taste in composition ; and , when seated on the throne , soon rendered it fashionable , partly by direct ...
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... French cuirassiers as a pro- digy ; yet we read , without the least disgust , how Godfrey slew his thousands , and Rinaldo his ten thousands . Within the last hundred years stories about China and Bantam , which ough . not to have ...
... French cuirassiers as a pro- digy ; yet we read , without the least disgust , how Godfrey slew his thousands , and Rinaldo his ten thousands . Within the last hundred years stories about China and Bantam , which ough . not to have ...
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... French literature of the of a bad thing so well done . The painting of last century . But , perhaps , the writer on the narrative is beyond description vivid and whom they produced the greatest effect , was graceful . The abundance of ...
... French literature of the of a bad thing so well done . The painting of last century . But , perhaps , the writer on the narrative is beyond description vivid and whom they produced the greatest effect , was graceful . The abundance of ...
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Seite 249 - There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. 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.
Seite 286 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Seite 16 - He had been wrested by no common deliverer from the grasp of no common foe. He had been ransomed by the sweat of no vulgar agony, by the blood of no * earthly sacrifice.
Seite 16 - The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other. One overpowering sentiment had subjected to itself pity and hatred, ambition and fear. Death had lost its terrors and pleasure its charms.
Seite 139 - Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets, Shakspeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly that it is not worth while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere.
Seite 113 - Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, commodities their fair price, industry and intelligence their natural reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment, by maintaining peace, by defending property, by diminishing the price of law, and by observing strict economy in every department of the state. Let the Government do this : the People will assuredly do...
Seite 38 - Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer, Why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure, if I had seen a ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Seite 13 - The blaze of truth and liberty may at first dazzle and bewilder nations which have become half blind in the house of bondage, but let them gaze on, and they will soon be able to bear it.
Seite 12 - Oliver Cromwell, his bitterest enemies themselves being judges, destitute of private virtues ? And what, after all, are the virtues ascribed to Charles ? A religious zeal, not more sincere than that of his son, and fully as weak and narrow-minded, and a few of the ordinary household decencies which half the tombstones in England claim for those who lie beneath them. A good father ! A good husband ! Ample apologies indeed for fifteen years of persecution, tyranny, and falsehood...
Seite 326 - ... him. Then the prisoners went mad with despair. They trampled each other down, fought for the places at the windows — fought for the pittance of water with which the cruel mercy of the murderers mocked their agonies — raved, prayed, blasphemed, implored the guards to fire among them.