Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems, Volume 2Estes and Lauriat, 1880 |
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... tion , the English respect for personal liberty , the English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good , were making rapid progress . There is scarcely anything in his- tory so interesting as that great stirring up of the ...
... tion , the English respect for personal liberty , the English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good , were making rapid progress . There is scarcely anything in his- tory so interesting as that great stirring up of the ...
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... tion . The affectation is the essence of the man . It per- vades all his thoughts and all his expressions . If it were taken away , nothing would be left . He coins new words , distorts the seuses of old words , and twists sentences ...
... tion . The affectation is the essence of the man . It per- vades all his thoughts and all his expressions . If it were taken away , nothing would be left . He coins new words , distorts the seuses of old words , and twists sentences ...
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... tion concerning the history of that time , the portion of Eng- lish history of which common readers know the least . The earlier letters contain the most lively and interest- ing account which we possess of that " great Walpolean battle ...
... tion concerning the history of that time , the portion of Eng- lish history of which common readers know the least . The earlier letters contain the most lively and interest- ing account which we possess of that " great Walpolean battle ...
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... tion , a faint suspicion that a minister had given pecuniary gratifications to Members of Parliament in return for their votes would have been enough to ruin him . But , during the century which followed the Restoration , the House of ...
... tion , a faint suspicion that a minister had given pecuniary gratifications to Members of Parliament in return for their votes would have been enough to ruin him . But , during the century which followed the Restoration , the House of ...
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... tion , his great parliamentary interest , will not alone explain this extraordinary fact . His success is a signal instance of what may be effected by a man who devotes his whole heart and soul without reserve to one object . He was ...
... tion , his great parliamentary interest , will not alone explain this extraordinary fact . His success is a signal instance of what may be effected by a man who devotes his whole heart and soul without reserve to one object . He was ...
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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...