Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems, Volume 2Estes and Lauriat, 1880 |
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... soon as the revolutionary spirit really began to stir in Europe , as soon as the hatred of kings became some- thing more than a sonorous phrase , he was frightened into a fanatical royalist , and became one of the most extravagant ...
... soon as the revolutionary spirit really began to stir in Europe , as soon as the hatred of kings became some- thing more than a sonorous phrase , he was frightened into a fanatical royalist , and became one of the most extravagant ...
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... soon as he found that it was offensive to all the great towns of Eng- land . The language which he held about that measure in a subsequent session is strikingly characteristic . Pulteney had insinuated that the scheme would again be ...
... soon as he found that it was offensive to all the great towns of Eng- land . The language which he held about that measure in a subsequent session is strikingly characteristic . Pulteney had insinuated that the scheme would again be ...
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... soon made . He preferred an unjust war to a stormy session . It is impos- sible to say of a Minister who acted thus that the love of peace was the one grand principle to which all his con- duct is to be referred . The governing ...
... soon made . He preferred an unjust war to a stormy session . It is impos- sible to say of a Minister who acted thus that the love of peace was the one grand principle to which all his con- duct is to be referred . The governing ...
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... , he probably would , even after the un- favorable elections of 1741 , have been able to weather the storm . But as soon as it was understood that the attack was directed against him alone , and that , if HORACE WALPOLE . 31.
... , he probably would , even after the un- favorable elections of 1741 , have been able to weather the storm . But as soon as it was understood that the attack was directed against him alone , and that , if HORACE WALPOLE . 31.
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... soon the victims . Among the reforms which the state then required , there were two of paramount importance , two which would alone have remedied almost every gross abuse , and without which all other remedies would have been unavailing ...
... soon the victims . Among the reforms which the state then required , there were two of paramount importance , two which would alone have remedied almost every gross abuse , and without which all other remedies would have been unavailing ...
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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...