The Great Triumphs of Great MenJames Mason William P. Nimmo, 1875 - 624 Seiten |
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... performed in the course of the crusade in Palestine , entered upon in consequence of the pro- gress in arms of the renowned Saladin . At the siege of St. Jean d'Acre , Richard took a leading part in the operations , and became very ...
... performed in the course of the crusade in Palestine , entered upon in consequence of the pro- gress in arms of the renowned Saladin . At the siege of St. Jean d'Acre , Richard took a leading part in the operations , and became very ...
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... perform a certain function The English archers received assigned to him , which was the the discharge in silence ; then celebration of the English king drawing their long - bows from as he returned victorious , -an their cases , they ...
... perform a certain function The English archers received assigned to him , which was the the discharge in silence ; then celebration of the English king drawing their long - bows from as he returned victorious , -an their cases , they ...
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... performed it . ' In 1788 , Howe was made an earl . At the commencement of the war against France in 1793 , he took the command of the western Channel fleet at the king's earnest and personal re- quest . In the next year , he succeeded ...
... performed it . ' In 1788 , Howe was made an earl . At the commencement of the war against France in 1793 , he took the command of the western Channel fleet at the king's earnest and personal re- quest . In the next year , he succeeded ...
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... perform his promise . ' Lord Holland ( Charles ' uncle ) , after quoting this passage from the Reminiscences of Sir G. Cole- brook , remarks , ' This was per- haps foolish ; but the performance of a promise was the moral inculcated by ...
... perform his promise . ' Lord Holland ( Charles ' uncle ) , after quoting this passage from the Reminiscences of Sir G. Cole- brook , remarks , ' This was per- haps foolish ; but the performance of a promise was the moral inculcated by ...
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... performed , a capacity for the nobler feats of the mind may be acquired : -the first , the especial object of your youth , will be to establish that control over your own minds and your own habits , which shall ensure the proper ...
... performed , a capacity for the nobler feats of the mind may be acquired : -the first , the especial object of your youth , will be to establish that control over your own minds and your own habits , which shall ensure the proper ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 155 - 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 95 - These abominable principles, and this more abominable avowal of them, demand the most decisive indignation.
Seite 95 - 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 158 - 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 211 - ... 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 96 - 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 64 - 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 197 - 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 117 - ... 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 169 - The Psalms of David imitated in the language of the New Testament, and applied to the Christian state and worship.