Political Essays, with Sketches of Public CharactersWilliam Hone, 1819 - 439 Seiten |
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... spirit of the nation ; when an Englishman felt that his name was another name for independence , envy of less happier lands , " when it was his pride to be born , and his wish that other nations might be- come free ; before a sophist ...
... spirit of the nation ; when an Englishman felt that his name was another name for independence , envy of less happier lands , " when it was his pride to be born , and his wish that other nations might be- come free ; before a sophist ...
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... spirit of contradiction , and is always wise beyond what is practicable . He is a bad tool to work with ; a part of a machine that never fits its place ; he cannot be trained to discipline , for he follows his own idle humours , or ...
... spirit of contradiction , and is always wise beyond what is practicable . He is a bad tool to work with ; a part of a machine that never fits its place ; he cannot be trained to discipline , for he follows his own idle humours , or ...
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... spirit , and from every thing that can cast a shade on the fancied delicacy of his own breast , and thus letting the cause of Liberty slip through his fingers , and be spilt like water on the ground - while another , more bold than he ...
... spirit , and from every thing that can cast a shade on the fancied delicacy of his own breast , and thus letting the cause of Liberty slip through his fingers , and be spilt like water on the ground - while another , more bold than he ...
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... spirits , contending with the barren- ness of his genius , produce a degree of dull vivacity , of pointed insignificance , and impotent energy , which is without any paralle ] but itself . It is curious , though somewhat painful , to ...
... spirits , contending with the barren- ness of his genius , produce a degree of dull vivacity , of pointed insignificance , and impotent energy , which is without any paralle ] but itself . It is curious , though somewhat painful , to ...
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... spirit of treating the French people as of a different species from ourselves - as a monster or a non - entity- of disposing of their government at the will of every paragraph- monger - of arming our hatred against them by ridiculous ...
... spirit of treating the French people as of a different species from ourselves - as a monster or a non - entity- of disposing of their government at the will of every paragraph- monger - of arming our hatred against them by ridiculous ...
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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.