Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems, Volume 2Estes and Lauriat, 1880 |
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... conduct . It is the maxim of a man more solicitous to hold power long than to use it well . It is remarkable that , though he was at the head of affairs during more than twenty years , not one great measure , not one important change ...
... conduct . It is the maxim of a man more solicitous to hold power long than to use it well . It is remarkable that , though he was at the head of affairs during more than twenty years , not one great measure , not one important change ...
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... conduct of Walpole with regard to the Spanish war is the great blemish of his public life . Archdeacon Coxe imagined that he had discovered one grand principle of action to which the whole public conduct of his hero ought to be referred ...
... conduct of Walpole with regard to the Spanish war is the great blemish of his public life . Archdeacon Coxe imagined that he had discovered one grand principle of action to which the whole public conduct of his hero ought to be referred ...
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... conduct was indeed a love of peace , but not in the sense in which Archdeacon Coxe uses the phrase . The peace which Walpole sought was not the peace of the country , but the peace of his own administration . During the greater part of ...
... conduct was indeed a love of peace , but not in the sense in which Archdeacon Coxe uses the phrase . The peace which Walpole sought was not the peace of the country , but the peace of his own administration . During the greater part of ...
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... conduct at some of the most important conjunc- tures of his life was evidently determined by pride and resentment . He had one fault , which of all human faults is most rarely found in company with true greatness . He was The quotation ...
... conduct at some of the most important conjunc- tures of his life was evidently determined by pride and resentment . He had one fault , which of all human faults is most rarely found in company with true greatness . He was The quotation ...
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... conduct regarding the South- Sea scheme . Craggs was perhaps saved by a timely death from a similar mark of infamy . A large minority in the House of Commons voted for a severe censure on Sunder- land , who , finding it impossible to ...
... conduct regarding the South- Sea scheme . Craggs was perhaps saved by a timely death from a similar mark of infamy . A large minority in the House of Commons voted for a severe censure on Sunder- land , who , finding it impossible to ...
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Page 466 - Antioch, when idols were still worshipped in the temple of Mecca. And she may still exist in undiminished vigor when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Page 645 - I impeach him in the name of the English nation, whose ancient honor he has sullied. I impeach him in the name of the people of India, whose rights he has trodden under foot, and whose country he has turned into a desert. Lastly, in the name of human nature itself, in the name of both sexes, in the name of every age, in the name of every rank, I impeach the common enemy and oppressor of all !" When the deep murmur of various emotions had subsided, Mr.
Page 200 - Come, rest in this bosom, my own stricken deer, Though the herd have fled from thee, thy home is still here; Here still is the smile, that no cloud can o'ercast, And a heart and a hand all thy own to the last. Oh! what was love made for, if 'tis not the same Through joy and through torment, through glory and shame...
Page 552 - ... that venerable chamber, in which all the antique gravity of a college library was so singularly blended with all that female grace and wit could devise to embellish a drawingroom. They will recollect, not unmoved, those shelves loaded with the varied learning of many lands and many ages, and those portraits in which were preserved the features of the best and wisest Englishmen of two generations.
Page 132 - Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, assembled at Westminster, do resolve that William and Mary, Prince and Princess of Orange, be, and be declared, king and queen of England...
Page 317 - Of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies.
Page 211 - My conceit of his person was never increased towards him by his place or honours; but I have and do reverence him for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed God would give him strength, for greatness he could not want.
Page 144 - Time glides on ; fortune is inconstant ; tempers are soured; bonds which seemed indissoluble are daily sundered by interest, by emulation, or by caprice. But no such cause can affect the silent converse which we hold with the highest of human intellects.
Page 252 - Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols : and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Page 552 - O'er my dim eyeballs glance the sudden tears ? How sweet were once thy prospects fresh and fair, Thy sloping walks and unpolluted air ? How sweet the glooms beneath...