The Great Triumphs of Great MenJames Mason William P. Nimmo, 1875 - 624 Seiten |
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... genius for govern- ment of Canute the Great . In England he had the rare art and happiness to make a conquered people forget that they had been conquered , and that he was a conqueror and an longer , and these appear to have been years ...
... genius for govern- ment of Canute the Great . In England he had the rare art and happiness to make a conquered people forget that they had been conquered , and that he was a conqueror and an longer , and these appear to have been years ...
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... genius . It is related of stroyed the empire , and placed this successful general and able all Germany under the feet of politician , that when a boy he Louis . was uncommonly active , but ex- It appeared from every cir - tremely ...
... genius . It is related of stroyed the empire , and placed this successful general and able all Germany under the feet of politician , that when a boy he Louis . was uncommonly active , but ex- It appeared from every cir - tremely ...
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... genius and future rise in life . He was regarded , indeed , as a very arch youth , but of too unsteady a temperament to promise success in any course of life which should depend on his own perseverance . It was this consideration ...
... genius and future rise in life . He was regarded , indeed , as a very arch youth , but of too unsteady a temperament to promise success in any course of life which should depend on his own perseverance . It was this consideration ...
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... genius . Upon one thing he was thoroughly resolved it should be ' Do or die . ' ' Beaten , I could not show my face , unless the fault was with the troops . ' The native Scindians had been conquered about sixty years before by the ...
... genius . Upon one thing he was thoroughly resolved it should be ' Do or die . ' ' Beaten , I could not show my face , unless the fault was with the troops . ' The native Scindians had been conquered about sixty years before by the ...
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... genius and abilities who laid the grounds for the suc- ceeding revolution to concert measures how to improve , to an effectual height , the growing discontent . From this time Hampden soon grew to be one of the most popular men of the ...
... genius and abilities who laid the grounds for the suc- ceeding revolution to concert measures how to improve , to an effectual height , the growing discontent . From this time Hampden soon grew to be one of the most popular men of the ...
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Seite 152 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously but luckily : when he describes anything you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Seite 91 - These abominable principles, and this more abominable avowal of them, demand the most decisive indignation.
Seite 91 - If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms : Never, never, never...
Seite 154 - As for Jonson, to whose character I am now arrived, if we look upon him while he was himself (for his last plays were but his dotages), I think him the most learned and judicious writer which any theatre ever had. He was a most severe judge of himself, as well as others. One cannot say he wanted wit, but rather that he was frugal of it.
Seite 207 - ... berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame.
Seite 92 - My Lords, I am old and weak, and at present unable to say more; but my feelings and indignation were too strong- to have said less. I could not have slept this night in my bed, nor reposed my head on my pillow, without giving this vent to my eternal abhorrence of such preposterous and enormous principles.
Seite 62 - How sleep the brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
Seite 195 - The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two syllables.
Seite 113 - ... their shadows in perfect stillness — how soon, upon any call of patriotism, or of necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion — how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage — how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder.
Seite 167 - The Psalms of David imitated in the language of the New Testament, and applied to the Christian state and worship.