Littell's Living Age, Volume 32Living Age Company, Incorporated, 1852 |
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... Perhaps you will urge that a long life of fame and flattery cannot fail to inflate the mind with a false estimate of its own powers . I do not believe it ; but , if so , then far less offensive would be the revelations of a person , who ...
... Perhaps you will urge that a long life of fame and flattery cannot fail to inflate the mind with a false estimate of its own powers . I do not believe it ; but , if so , then far less offensive would be the revelations of a person , who ...
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... perhaps , of sin and like her father . That was no recommendation to sorrow like our own - that the moon , the mild lu- my aunt . Moreover , having resolved that I should minary which I loved to see shining through the be the pride of ...
... perhaps , of sin and like her father . That was no recommendation to sorrow like our own - that the moon , the mild lu- my aunt . Moreover , having resolved that I should minary which I loved to see shining through the be the pride of ...
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... perhaps he did not care to face my learned sister and aunt . I went home alone , and my feelings of affection were gratified , of course , by finding that Ella had started two days before for Paris , with uncle Julian and his family . I ...
... perhaps he did not care to face my learned sister and aunt . I went home alone , and my feelings of affection were gratified , of course , by finding that Ella had started two days before for Paris , with uncle Julian and his family . I ...
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... perhaps , you might have been other- wise , had I followed my own judgment , and retained you under my personal supervision . My watchfulness might have remedied nature's deficien- cies . But I yielded to advice on which I wholly relied ...
... perhaps , you might have been other- wise , had I followed my own judgment , and retained you under my personal supervision . My watchfulness might have remedied nature's deficien- cies . But I yielded to advice on which I wholly relied ...
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... perhaps ought to accuse myself as the cause of her illness , " observed my aunt to Clair . " I was anxious she should finish a difficult translation , and she sat up late last night . But the fruit of her toil is magnificent . " For a ...
... perhaps ought to accuse myself as the cause of her illness , " observed my aunt to Clair . " I was anxious she should finish a difficult translation , and she sat up late last night . But the fruit of her toil is magnificent . " For a ...
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Page 324 - What hard mishap hath doomed this gentle swain? And questioned every gust of rugged wings That blows from off each beaked promontory : They knew not of his story...
Page 346 - My heart is disquieted within me, and the fear of death is fallen upon me. 5 Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and an horrible dread hath overwhelmed me. 6 And I said, O that I had wings like a dove! for then would I flee away, and be at rest.
Page 276 - Unhappily, while the. natural growth of society went on, the artificial polity continued unchanged. The ancient form of the representation remained ; and precisely because the form remained, the spirit departed. Then came that pressure almost to bursting, the new wine in the old bottles, the new society under the old institutions.
Page 243 - Here lies Fred, Who was alive, and is dead. Had it been his father, I had much rather. Had it been his brother, Still better than another. Had it been his sister, No one would have missed her. Had it been the whole generation, Still better for the nation. But since 'tis only Fred, Who was alive, and is dead, There's no more to be said.
Page 275 - We talk of the wisdom of our ancestors ; and in one respect at least they were wiser than we. They legislated for their own times. They looked at the England which was before them. They did not think it necessary to give twice as many members to York as they gave to London, because York had been the capital of Britain in the time of Constantius Chlorus...
Page 206 - The wolves, having regained their feet, sprang directly towards me. The race was renewed for twenty yards up the stream ; they were already close on my back, when I glided round and dashed directly past my pursuers.
Page 302 - Robert Peel had a great deficiency ; he was without imagination. Wanting imagination, he wanted prescience. No one was more sagacious when dealing with the circumstances before him ; no one penetrated the present with more acuteness and accuracy. His judgment was faultless provided he had not to deal with the future. Thus it happened through his long career, that while he always was looked upon as the most prudent and safest of leaders, he ever, after a protracted display of admirable tactics, concluded...
Page 275 - With all his faults — and they were neither few nor small — only one cemetery was worthy to contain his remains. In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet restingplace to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall, the dust of the illustrious accused should have mingled with the dust of the illustrious accusers.
Page 195 - We may be quite sure that they were not invented without being needed, that they have each a correlative in the world of realities. I open the first letter of the alphabet; what means this "ah...
Page 276 - They framed a representative system, which was not indeed without defects and irregularities, but which was well adapted to the state of England in their time. But a great revolution took place. The character of the old corporations changed. New forms of property came into existence. New portions of society rose into importance. There were in our rural districts rich cultivators, who were not freeholders. There were in our capital rich traders, who were not liverymen. Towns shrank into villages....