Political Essays, with Sketches of Public CharactersWilliam Hone, 1819 - 439 Seiten |
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... Passion speaks truer than reason . If Buonaparte was a conqueror , he con- quered the grand conspiracy of kings against the abstract right of the human race to be free ; and I , as a man , could not be indifferent which side to take ...
... Passion speaks truer than reason . If Buonaparte was a conqueror , he con- quered the grand conspiracy of kings against the abstract right of the human race to be free ; and I , as a man , could not be indifferent which side to take ...
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... passion , to their vices , not their virtues : we must discard plain truth and abstract justice as doubtful and inefficient pleas , retaining only the names and the pretext as a " convenient salvo for hypocrisy ! He is the best XX PREFACE .
... passion , to their vices , not their virtues : we must discard plain truth and abstract justice as doubtful and inefficient pleas , retaining only the names and the pretext as a " convenient salvo for hypocrisy ! He is the best XX PREFACE .
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... the game into the hands of the common enemy , who laughs in his sleeve , and watches them and their little perverse , pettifogging passions at work for him , from the high • t tower of his pride and strength ! If an honest xxiv PREFACE .
... the game into the hands of the common enemy , who laughs in his sleeve , and watches them and their little perverse , pettifogging passions at work for him , from the high • t tower of his pride and strength ! If an honest xxiv PREFACE .
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... the throne , is of more force and validity than all the abstract reason in the world , without power and prejudice . A cause centred in an individual , 1 which is strengthened by all the ties of passion and xxviii PREFACE .
... the throne , is of more force and validity than all the abstract reason in the world , without power and prejudice . A cause centred in an individual , 1 which is strengthened by all the ties of passion and xxviii PREFACE .
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William Hazlitt. which is strengthened by all the ties of passion and self - interest , as in the case of a king against a whole people , is more likely to prevail than that of a scattered multitude , who have only a common and divided ...
William Hazlitt. which is strengthened by all the ties of passion and self - interest , as in the case of a king against a whole people , is more likely to prevail than that of a scattered multitude , who have only a common and divided ...
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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 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 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 130 - And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke : my father hath chastised you with whips, but I « will chastise you with scorpions.
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 xxxv - Chaste Matrons praise her, and grave Bishops bless: In golden Chains the willing World she draws, And hers the Gospel is, and hers the Laws: Mounts the Tribunal, lifts her scarlet head, And sees pale Virtue carted in her stead!
Seite 130 - 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 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 255 - And all our dainty terms for fratricide; Terms which we trundle smoothly o'er our tongues Like mere abstractions, empty sounds to which We join no feeling and attach no form! As if the soldier died without a wound; As if the fibres of this godlike frame Were gored without a pang...
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.
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 276 - Ay, sir ; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.