The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Free thoughts on public affairs. Political essays. Advertisement, etc., from The eloquence of the British senateJ. M. Dent & Company, 1902 |
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... honour , and of our country's welfare , that we can expect the fruits of victory . If we find in those who lead , no higher principle of action than a wish to serve their own interests , or gratify their own passions , and in those who ...
... honour , and of our country's welfare , that we can expect the fruits of victory . If we find in those who lead , no higher principle of action than a wish to serve their own interests , or gratify their own passions , and in those who ...
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... honour among themselves : but I cannot help thinking that in a war which is to try the spirit of a people , they ought not to be tricked , or bullied , or unnecessarily forced into it . With respect to the suspension of the war in ...
... honour among themselves : but I cannot help thinking that in a war which is to try the spirit of a people , they ought not to be tricked , or bullied , or unnecessarily forced into it . With respect to the suspension of the war in ...
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... honour , the love of justice , public spirit , or a zeal for the interests of the community should be laughed at as absurd chimeras , and that an ardent love of liberty , or determined resistance to powerful oppression should be treated ...
... honour , the love of justice , public spirit , or a zeal for the interests of the community should be laughed at as absurd chimeras , and that an ardent love of liberty , or determined resistance to powerful oppression should be treated ...
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... honour to defend them . The loss of respect , or of their former privileges , is a change which to them appears like something out of the course of nature , to which no force or accidental circumstances can ever reconcile them . They ...
... honour to defend them . The loss of respect , or of their former privileges , is a change which to them appears like something out of the course of nature , to which no force or accidental circumstances can ever reconcile them . They ...
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... honour , of reason and liberty , by which I think our views and conduct ought to have been regulated , can be too deeply impressed on our minds . End of FREE THOUGHTS ON PUBLIC AFFAIRS POLITICAL ESSAYS , WITH SKETCHES OF PUBLIC ...
... honour , of reason and liberty , by which I think our views and conduct ought to have been regulated , can be too deeply impressed on our minds . End of FREE THOUGHTS ON PUBLIC AFFAIRS POLITICAL ESSAYS , WITH SKETCHES OF PUBLIC ...
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Seite 254 - Ay, sir ; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
Seite 122 - 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 156 - 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 192 - 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 157 - 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 35 - For never can true reconcilement grow Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep...
Seite 146 - Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.
Seite 147 - So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? Neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse : to your tents, O Israel : now see to thine own house, David.
Seite 120 - Toutefois, je l'avoue, en ce comble de gloire, Du Dieu que j'ai quitté l'importune mémoire Jette encore en mon âme un reste de terreur, Et c'est ce qui redouble et nourrit ma fureur.
Seite 455 - Though hard and rare; thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.