Bolingbroke: A Historical Study; and Voltaire in EnglandJ. Murray, 1886 - 308 Seiten |
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Seite 76 - The Earl of Oxford was removed on Tuesday,— " the Queen died on Sunday! What a world is " this, and how does Fortune banter us !" says Bolingbroke.* * Letter to Swift, Aug.
Seite 96 - He talked to me," says his lordship, " like a man who expected every moment to set out for England or Scotland, but who did not very well know for which...
Seite 110 - I beg leave to remark, that the only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.
Seite 213 - If one religion only were allowed in England, the Government would very possibly become arbitrary ; if there were but two, the people would cut one another's throats; but as there are such a multitude, they all live happy and in peace.
Seite 208 - He was thus continuing his discourse, when the Duchess, quite in a passion, snatched the papers out of his hands. " I thought," said she, " the man had sense; but I find him at bottom either a fool or a philosopher.
Seite 209 - In my silence see the lover; True love is by silence known; In my eyes you'll best discover, All the power of your own.
Seite 187 - This should have been a noble creature: he Hath all the energy which would have made A goodly frame of glorious elements, Had they been wisely mingled; as it is, It is an awful chaos — light and darkness, And mind and dust, and passions and pure thoughts, Mix'd, and contending without end or order, All dormant or destructive.
Seite 241 - Thompson's tragedies seems to me wisely intricated, and elegantly writ. They want perhaps some fire; and it may be that his heroes are neither moving nor busy enough. But taking him all in all, methinks he has the highest claim to the greatest esteem.
Seite 73 - I never led a life so thoroughly uneasy as I do at present. Our situation is so bad that our enemies could not, without abundance of invention and ability, have placed us so ill, if we had left it entirely to their management.