Literary Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1913 - 702 pages |
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... talents and resolution might have been . Such princes may still be seen , the scan- dals of the southern thrones of Europe , princes false alike to the accomplices who have served them and to the oppo- nents who have spared them ...
... talents and resolution might have been . Such princes may still be seen , the scan- dals of the southern thrones of Europe , princes false alike to the accomplices who have served them and to the oppo- nents who have spared them ...
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... talents and of great virtues , but , we apprehend , infinitely too fastidious for public life . He did not perceive that , in such times as those on which his lot had fallen , the duty of a statesman is to choose the better cause and to ...
... talents and of great virtues , but , we apprehend , infinitely too fastidious for public life . He did not perceive that , in such times as those on which his lot had fallen , the duty of a statesman is to choose the better cause and to ...
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... talents and virtues which the crisis required , who alone could have saved his country from the present dangers without plunging her into others , who alone could have united all the friends of liberty in obedience to his commanding ...
... talents and virtues which the crisis required , who alone could have saved his country from the present dangers without plunging her into others , who alone could have united all the friends of liberty in obedience to his commanding ...
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... talents of Bonaparte to those of Cromwell ; and he possessed also , what neither Cromwell nor Bonaparte possessed , learning , taste , wit , eloquence , the sentiments and the manners of an accomplished gentleman . Between Cromwell and ...
... talents of Bonaparte to those of Cromwell ; and he possessed also , what neither Cromwell nor Bonaparte possessed , learning , taste , wit , eloquence , the sentiments and the manners of an accomplished gentleman . Between Cromwell and ...
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... talents could have any unworthy reason for shrinking from military enterprise . This reproach is his highest glory . In the success of the English navy he could have no selfish interest . Its triumphs added nothing to his fame ; its ...
... talents could have any unworthy reason for shrinking from military enterprise . This reproach is his highest glory . In the success of the English navy he could have no selfish interest . Its triumphs added nothing to his fame ; its ...
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Page 304 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Page 183 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God...
Page 95 - The Son of man goeth, as it is written of him ; but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.
Page 539 - What the horns are to the buffalo, what the paw is to the tiger, what the sting is to the bee, what beauty, according to the old Greek song, is to woman, deceit is to the Bengalee. Large promises, smooth excuses, elaborate tissues of circumstantial falsehood, chicanery, perjury, forgery, are the weapons offensive and defensive of the people of the Lower Ganges.
Page 608 - India and its inhabitants were not to him, as to most Englishmen, mere names and abstractions, but a real country and a real people. The burning sun, the strange vegetation of the palm and the...
Page 128 - ... the eyes of all men were fixed upon him, as their patrite pater, and the pilot that must steer the vessel through the tempests and rocks which threatened it. And I am persuaded, his power and interest, at that time, was greater to do, good or hurt, than any man's in the kingdom, or than any man of his rank hath had in any time : for his reputation of honesty was universal, and his affections seemed so publicly guided, that no corrupt or private ends could bias them.
Page 430 - The same courier who carried this " soothing letter," as Clive calls it, to the Nabob, carried to Mr. Watts a letter in the following terms : " Tell Meer Jaffier to fear nothing. I will join him with five thousand men who never turned their backs. Assure him I will march night and day to his assistance, and stand by him as long as I have a man left.
Page 623 - ... public to hear him was unbounded. His sparkling and highly finished declamation lasted two days ; but the Hall was crowded to suffocation during the whole time. It was said that fifty guineas had been paid for a single ticket. Sheridan, when he concluded, contrived, with a knowledge of stage-effect which his father might have envied, to sink back, as if exhausted, into the arms of Burke, who hugged him with the energy of generous admiration.
Page 295 - We have often thought that the motion of the public mind in our country resembles that of the sea when the tide is rising. Each successive wave rushes forward, breaks, and rolls back ; but the great flood is steadily coming in.
Page 424 - Then^was_committed that great crime, memorable for its singular atrocity, memorable for the tremendous retribution by which it was followed. The English captives were left at the mercy of the guards, and the guards determined to secure them for the night in the prison of the garrison, a chamber known by the fearful name of the Black Hole..