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... position . To devote her energy to the education of youth , to become the tutelary saint of a young genius , such as poor Matilda's infant would assuredly prove , appeared a graceful mode of exit from the gay world . Per- haps a vision ...
... position . To devote her energy to the education of youth , to become the tutelary saint of a young genius , such as poor Matilda's infant would assuredly prove , appeared a graceful mode of exit from the gay world . Per- haps a vision ...
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... position to give their majesties an assurance that they might rely upon him . A few days afterwards Mirabeau placed in the count's hand a memoir on the subject , dated the 5th of October , 1789. This memoir is found in the ...
... position to give their majesties an assurance that they might rely upon him . A few days afterwards Mirabeau placed in the count's hand a memoir on the subject , dated the 5th of October , 1789. This memoir is found in the ...
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... position of the present executive power in France towards the constitution of 1848 ? She adds that , to succeed in this line of conduct , a ministry must be formed , composed of able and devoted men , ready to be disowned by the ...
... position of the present executive power in France towards the constitution of 1848 ? She adds that , to succeed in this line of conduct , a ministry must be formed , composed of able and devoted men , ready to be disowned by the ...
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... position and the indecision of his character , made him blind to the impossibility of maintaining a state of things , that nothing but success could justify . How often have I told you , while doing ample justice to your good qualities ...
... position and the indecision of his character , made him blind to the impossibility of maintaining a state of things , that nothing but success could justify . How often have I told you , while doing ample justice to your good qualities ...
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... position of the royal family , never took place . The fifteenth note to the court is a short and masterly sketch of the points of foreign policy that demanded the special attention of the French government . Of this sketch , short as it ...
... position of the royal family , never took place . The fifteenth note to the court is a short and masterly sketch of the points of foreign policy that demanded the special attention of the French government . Of this sketch , short as it ...
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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....